photos: 5 centers for Russian biochem weapons

12-14-20, 6:30 a.m. Moscow time, A. Navalny calls and records conversation with FSB agent 

Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Navalny impersonating a non-existing senior security official.  12-21-20  Around the time of Navalny's poisoning in early Oct. 2020, Kudryavtsev had been in regular communication with Col. Stanislav Makshakov, the direct commander of the FSB squad and deputy director of FSB’s Criminalistics Institute.  https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/21/if-it-hadnt-been-for-the-prompt-work-of-the-medics-fsb-officer-inadvertently-confesses-murder-plot-to-navalny/

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                               Stanislav Makshakov. Source: Passport file          Col. Makshakov reports to General Kirill Vasilyev, director of the FSB Criminalistics Institute.  Vasilyev is a chemical engineer and specialist in, among other things.  Kirill Vasilyev is subordinate to

Major-General Vladimir Bogdanov, former chief of the Criminalistics Institute and currently head of its parent entity, the FSB’s ‘Special Technology Center’.  He is also deputy director of FSB’s powerful Scientific-Technical Service. 

Drone image of  FSB secure facility at 2 Akademiki Vargi, sw Moscow. (Source: The Insider) https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/14/fsb-team-of-chemical-weapon-experts-implicated-in-alexey-navalny-novichok-poisoning/

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 2 Akademiki Vargi, sw Moscow--an FSB center  

 Strains of Novichok have been developed here at the Signal Institute.  At the center of the web was the Signal Institute in Moscow, previously identified as at the heart of Russia's illicit and secret program to develop Novichok.  https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/europe/russia-navalny-agents-bellingcat-ward/index.html

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2-11-21  Based on an analysis of travel records of known members of the poison squad from the FSB’s Criminalistics Institute previously implicated in the poisoning of Alexey Navalny and three other Russian activists, we have now established that this unit also systematically tailed

Vladimir Kara-Murza before both his first and second medical emergencies.  Crucially, members of this FSB unit had shadowed Kara-Murza on a campaign trip outside Moscow that ended less than 48 hours before his first poisoning incident. The FSB unit then resumed following Kara-Murza approximately five months after he returned from treatment in the USA.  The same team would continue tailing him until he was poisoned for the second time on 1 February 2017.  https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2021/02/11/vladimir-kara-murza-tailed-by-members-of-fsb-squad-prior-to-suspected-poisonings/

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The sprawling complex of The Institute for Experimental Military Medicine outside St. Petersburg. Photo: The Insider

One of the labs of SC Signal is located at Natatinskaya 16 in Moscow. The same address houses one of Russia’s military institutes tasked with the destruction of Russia”s chemical weapons arsenal.    https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/10/23/russias-clandestine-chemical-weapons-programme-and-the-grus-unit-21955/