From:https://oc-media.org/russia-warns-of-military-measures-over-us-funded-lab-in-georgia/
俄罗斯杜马国防委员会主席警告说，俄罗斯将对美国资助的格鲁吉亚实验室采取“外交和军事措施”。他说，第比利斯卢格中心正在“设计生物武器和病毒”，而佐治亚州则称这一指控为“荒谬的宣传”。
弗拉基米尔·沙马诺夫要求在“俄罗斯专家在场”的情况下对实验室进行检查。
格鲁吉亚外交部称这些指控是“荒谬的”，也是“又一次试图诋毁美格关系的宣传人士”。
周四，俄罗斯国防部索要该实验室储存了“用于运送化学和生物制剂的弹药”，并在实验室进行的实验中造成数十人死亡。
俄罗斯核、生物和化学保护部队负责人基罗洛夫说，美国很可能在格鲁吉亚卢格中心以医学研究为幌子，试验了一种有毒药物或一种高致命性生物制剂。
这些指控发生在俄罗斯被告人美国、英国和荷兰官员的网络攻击。
同一天，俄罗斯国防委员会主席、俄罗斯空降兵前司令官弗拉基米尔·沙马诺夫，告诉俄罗斯通讯社塔斯这“将在国家一级采取若干措施”。
我们不能对此视而不见，因为我们知道那里发生了一些直接影响南部边境安全的事情。我们将采取外交和军事措施，沙马诺夫强调，他认为目前没有必要增加俄罗斯南部辐射、化学和生物保护部队的数量。
格鲁吉亚官员说，这些指控旨在诋毁格鲁吉亚与其战略伙伴的关系。
这是俄罗斯不断散布谎言的又一个宣传，目的是诋毁美格关系。外交部官员康斯坦蒂尼迪(VladimerKonstantinidi)周五对记者说，我们当然会用所有的工具做出相应的反应，并利用外交部的力量。
卢格实验室主任告诉伊普雷这句话的意思是，“俄罗斯记者在实验室访问时微笑着，但后来又传播了污秽”。
Imnadze说：“我们不会在动物身上做实验，更不用说人类了。”
有关实验室的指控从何而来
理查德卢格公共卫生研究中心是一个由美国资助的设施，由格鲁吉亚卫生部控制。该机构于2013年8月正式成立，但在1997年和2002年签署了关于合作防止生物武器发展相关技术和病原体扩散的美国-格鲁吉亚协定之后，于2004年开始成立。
俄罗斯开始正式表达对该实验室的关注，此前格鲁吉亚前安全局长伊戈尔·乔尔加泽(Igor GiorGadze)陈述9月11日，卢格实验室在莫斯科对人进行实验，并制造生物武器。
1993-1995年，乔尔加泽担任格鲁吉亚国家安全部长。1995年，他因企图暗杀格鲁吉亚前总统谢瓦尔德纳泽(EduardShevardnadze)而离开格鲁吉亚。
国际刑警组织对他进行了追捕，但在他获得俄罗斯庇护后，对他的指控于2016年撤销。在莫斯科，乔格则成立了正义党和一个名为“反索罗斯”的组织。
乔加泽关于实验室的声明被俄罗斯媒体和亲俄的格鲁吉亚媒体广泛报道。俄罗斯外交部发言人扎哈拉娃(MariaZakharova)敦促美国国务院对乔治·加泽的指控做出解释。
“很有可能的是，美国陆军科学小组的生物学家和受雇于国防减少威胁机构合同工作的人在格鲁吉亚人身上进行了秘密实验，经常导致致命的后果[…]。2015年12月，30名接受丙型肝炎治疗的患者死亡，24人在一天内死亡。“死因不明”写在相关专栏…中。随后，今年4月又有30人死亡，另有13人死于2016年8月，原因不明。“不幸的是，到目前为止还没有对事实进行调查”，GiorGadze说。
卢格实验室是佐治亚州国家疾病控制公共卫生中心(NCDC)的中心部分。NCDC负责人AmiranGamkreldze周五在会上为回应这些指控举行了一次简报会。
甘克勒兹说，我们不会对[俄罗斯首席医生]奥尼斯琴科(Onischenko)和乔治·加泽(GiorGadze)的猜测和胡言乱语做出回应，但鉴于俄罗斯官方圈子已经开始讨论这个话题，我们决定再次讨论这个问题，并表示，俄罗斯媒体和官方来源传播的所有信息都是虚假的，目的在于抹黑我们国家的进步和创新。
他还说，对卢格实验室感兴趣的俄罗斯专家已经被邀请访问该国。
他说，11月14日至15日，第比利斯将主办生物实验室评估讲习班，来自20个国家的代表将参加讲习班。他说，他们也向俄罗斯发出了邀请，但尚未收到答复。
“阿披实宣传”
神话探测器由当地非营利组织媒体发展基金会(Mdf)发起的一项揭穿神话的举措，调查了乔加泽的声明，发现他的指控“荒谬”，因为“卢格实验室只参与了部分诊断工作，而没有参与丙型肝炎消除计划的治疗”。
“索沃迪用于治疗丙型肝炎的药物是导致患者死亡的原因，这一说法没有科学依据，因为在下一阶段治疗中使用的Soosbuvir品牌为Sovaldi，以及Harvoni，不需要检测，因为这两种药物都有欧洲和美国的质量验证文件，而且不仅在格鲁吉亚，而且在世界上许多其他国家都广泛使用。应该指出的是，在2015-2017年参与格鲁吉亚计划的36,012名患者中，有24,481人从该疾病中恢复过来。神话探测器 报告.
MDF 2017年报告在反西方宣传上说，有关卢格实验室的宣传信息也曾在亲俄媒体上流传过。
报告说，与前几年一样，2017年还出版了有关第比利斯理查德·卢格公共卫生研究中心(Richard Lugar Public Health Research Centre)的阴谋，根据该中心，该中心致力于研发致命病毒，目的是摧毁格鲁吉亚基因。
Russia warns of ‘military measures’ over US-funded lab in Georgia
The chairman of the Russian Duma’s Defence Committee has warned that Russia will take ‘diplomatic and military measures’ over a US-funded lab in Georgia. He said the Lugar Centre in Tbilisi was ‘designing bio-weapons and viruses’, while Georgia called the accusation ‘absurd propaganda’.
Vladimir Shamanov demanded an inspection of the laboratory with the ‘presence of Russian specialists’.
Georgia’s Foreign Ministry called the allegations ‘absurd’ and ‘yet another propagandist attempt to discredit the US–Georgian relationship’.
On Thursday, Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed that the laboratory stored ‘munitions intended for delivering chemical and biological agents’ and that dozens of people had been killed during experiments carried out by the lab.
‘The United States is very likely to have tested a toxic drug or a highly lethal biological agent at the Lugar Centre in Georgia under the guise of medical research’, Chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops Igor Kirillov said.
The allegations came the same day Russia was accused of cyber attacks by American, British, and Dutch officials.
On the same day, the Russian Defence Committee chairman and former commander of the Russian Airborne Troops, Vladimir Shamanov, toldRussian news agency TASS that ‘a number of measures will be taken at the national level’.
‘We cannot just turn a blind eye, knowing that something that directly affects security on the southern border is happening there. We will take diplomatic and military measures’, said Shamanov, stressing that he did not currently see a need for increasing the number of units at the Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops in southern Russia.
Georgian officials said the allegations were aimed at discrediting Georgia’s relations with its strategic partner.
‘This is yet another propaganda of a lie Russia is constantly spreading, with the aim to discredit the US–Georgian relationship. Of course we will react accordingly with all the tools and leverage the foreign ministry has’, Foreign Ministry official Vladimer Konstantinidi told journalists on Friday.
The head of Lugar Laboratory toldIpress that ‘Russian journalists were smiling during their visit at the laboratory but spread filth later’.
‘We don’t experiment on animals, let alone people’, said Imnadze.
Where allegations about laboratory come from
The Richard Lugar Centre for Public Health Research is a US-funded facility run under the Georgian Health Ministry’s control. It officially opened in August 2013 but its establishment began in 2004 following US–Georgia agreements signed in 1997 and 2002 on cooperation in the prevention of proliferation of technology and pathogens related to the development of biological weapons.
Russia began officially expressing concern about the lab after former Georgian security chief Igor Giorgadze made a statement in Moscow on 11 September that the Lugar Laboratory was conducting experiments on people and creating biological weapons.
Giorgadze served as Georgia’s State Security Minister in 1993–1995. He left Georgia in 1995 after an investigation was launched against him for the attempted assassination of former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze.
He was sought by the Interpol but charges against him were dropped in 2016 after he was granted asylum in Russia. In Moscow, Giorgadze founded the Justice Party and an organisation called ‘Anti-Soros’.
Giorgadze’s statements about the lab were widely covered in Russian media and by pro-Russian Georgian media. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova urged the US Department of State to make explanations on Giorgadze’s allegations.
‘It’s quite possible that biologists from the US army science group and hired people working on contracts for the Defence Threat Reduction Agency conducted secret experiments on the Georgian population, frequently ending with lethal consequences […] 30 people undergoing Hepatitis C treatment died in December 2015 with 24 people dying within one day. “Cause of death is unknown” is written in the relevant column… Then, 30 more persons died in April and 13 more people – in August 2016 for unknown reasons. Unfortunately, no investigation has been conducted into the facts so far’, said Giorgadze.
The Lugar lab is a central part of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control Public Health (NCDC). The head of the NCDC, Amiran Gamkrelidze, hosted a briefing on Friday at the in response to the allegations.
‘We wouldn’t respond to [Russian chief medical doctor] Onischenko’s and Giorgadze’s speculations and nonsense, but given that the topic has been picked up by official Russian circles, we decided to discuss this again and state that all the information spread by Russian media and official sources is false and aimed at discrediting progress and innovations in our country’, said Gamkrelidze.
He also added that Russian experts who are interested in Lugar Laboratory have already been invited to the country.
He said that on 14–15 November, Tbilisi would host the Bio-Laboratory Assessment Workshop in which representatives from 20 countries will participate. He said they have sent an invitation to Russia as well, but haven’t received a response.
‘Absurd propaganda’
Myth Detector, a myth-debunking initiative by the Media Development Foundation (MDF), a local non-profit group, investigated Giorgadze’s statements and found his allegations ‘absurd’ because ‘the Lugar Laboratory is involved only in the part of diagnostics rather than treatment of the Hepatitis C elimination programme’.
‘The claims that Sovaldi medication used for the treatment of Hepatitis C is the reason for the death of patients have no scientific proof, since Sofosbuvir, sold under the brand name Sovaldi, as well as Harvoni, used at the next stage of treatment, does not need testing, as both medications have European and American quality verification documents and are widely used not only in Georgia but in many other countries of the world. It should be noted that 24,481 out of 36,012 patients involved in the Georgian program in 2015–2017 recovered from the disease’, says Myth Detector’s report.
MDF’s 2017 reporton anti-Western propaganda said that propaganda messages about Lugar Laboratory have been circulating in the pro-Russian media in the past as well.
‘Like in previous years, 2017 also saw publication of conspiracies about the Richard Lugar Public Health Research Centre in Tbilisi, according to which the centre was engaged in developing lethal viruses with the aim to destroy the Georgian gene’, the report says.