‘Biodefense’ is the buzzword around the Kremlin. But is that about defending the Russian bio-tech industry, or the genetic ‘purity’ of the Russian people? Or both?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-putins-fascination-with-genetics-just-eugenics-in-disguise
https://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2019/05/30/5cee53bb9a79472dda53a78f
https://republic.ru/posts/93818
https://carnegie.ru/commentary/79222
https://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/181089
https://jamestown.org/program/control-over-russian-political-agenda-slipping-from-putins-hands/
Things have rarely been so good for Russian sovereign debt chief Konstantin Vyshkovsky. Foreign investors want his bonds so much that he’s already sold half his annual target and now can place them at a discount to the market.