A technician's death in Siberia exposes the hollow core of state-managed biosecurity, proving once again that opaque regimes care more for narrative control than containment.
By Tom Beckwith ·
After a lab technician died in Irkutsk, Russian officials are downplaying a suspected pneumonic plague leak to hide systemic failure and avoid international alarm.
By Josie Calloway ·
By covering up the death of Darya Shipilova in Siberia, the Russian state is repeating a deadly history of prioritizing military secrets over human lives.
By Josie Calloway ·