Dear CCI Friends,
Unbelievable! This happened yesterday!
Why would anyone sanction research facilities for creating a vaccine for Covid-19?
It is hard to believe that our country would do such a vile act. Who put this in motion?
Was it anger at not being “First”? Jealousy? Did they think they wouldn’t be found out?
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
U.S. SANCTIONS RUSSIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE THAT DEVELOPED COVID-19 VACCINE
August 28, 2020
By Ben Norton
The US Commerce Department blacklisted a Russian research institute that helped create the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine.
Russia won the race to develop the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus. The United States has responded by slapping sanctions on a Russian research facility involved in creating it.
The US government has blacklisted several Russian scientific institutes, including the Russian Defense Ministry’s 48th Central Research Institute, which has worked with other non-military medical centers to develop and test the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine.
In the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic and a historic economic crisis, Washington has escalated its global campaign of economic warfare, imposing sanctions on foreign adversaries and announcing new punitive measures on a nearly daily basis.