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Executive Summary 9

1 Introduction.13

2 Russia’s strategy of constructive engagement with the West 17

2.1 Russia’s non-constructive strategy in the sphere of CBW21

2.2 Russian biodefence in a national security context 25

3 Conversion of the military industrial complex (MIC)29

3.1 Retained Russian CBW Technology Capacity 32

4 Conversion of facilities and redirecting scientists from the former Soviet offensive biological

warfare programme 35

4.1 The offensive biological warfare programme of the Soviet Union .36

4.2 Conversion of facilities and redirecting scientists39

4.3 The European Union’s (EU) initiatives and support programmes.41

4.4 The US State Department43

4.5 The US Cooperative Threat Reduction Programme, CTR43

4.6 The US Department of Health and Human Service (DHHS) Biotechnology Engagement

Programme (BTEP) 44

4.7 The US Department of Energy’s programme IPP, Initiative for Proliferation Prevention 45

4.8 Other organizations 45

4.9 The International Science and Technology Centre (ISTC) in Moscow and the Science and

Technology Centre in Ukraine (STCU) .46

4.10 The G8 Global Partnership against the spread of weapons and materials of mass destruction49



4.11 A short description of recent developments on the destruction of chemical weapons54

5 Progress of international support programmes 59

5.1 Conversion of BW facilities.60

5.2 Examples of conversion of specific biological facilities .63

5.3 Analysis of conversion efforts .66

5.4 Problem with exchange of modified antrax strain 71

6 Biopreparat – lead organization in the Soviet BW Programme75

7 Biopreparat today 81

7.1 AOOT Biokhimmash83

7.2 FGUP Moskhimfarmpreparaty imeni Semashko 88

7.3 Searle Pharma - All-Russian Center for Molecular Diagnostics and Therapy89

8 The Leadership of Biopreparat in the 1990s .91

8.1 General Yuri Tikhonovich Kalinin91

8.2 Kalinin demoted or promoted? .95

8.3 Rosmedprom – another platform of power for Yuri T. Kalinin? 96

9 Concluding discussion and political recommendations99

Appendix 1: Planned activities of the Pathogen Defence Programme 1999-2005 111

Appendix 2: Facilities and productions of the Pathogen Defence Programme 1999-2005 115

Appendix 3: Brief chronology relating to the Soviet biological weapons’ programme 1918-2003 .119

Appendix 4: Tentative list of Biopreparat companies and institutes .127

Appendix 5: Brief biography of Yuri T. Kalinin133

Appendix 6: List of abbreviations .135