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As political winds shift, a US-funded biosecurity lab in Almaty could become a major embarrassment for Washington https://asiatimes.com-by MK Bhadrakumar Russian President Vladimir Putin and then-Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev walk along a Caspian Sea embankment while participating in the Fifth Caspian Summit in Aktau, Kazakhstan. Photo: Sputnik / Aleksey Nikolskyi The Kazakh Ministry of Health has issued an innocuous disclaimer, denying social media reports about the seizure of a “military biological lab near Almaty by unidentified people.” According to Russia’s Tass news agency , social media had speculated that specialists in chemical protection suits were working near the lab as...
