Posted on 03/03/2023 12:31:09 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Russia's investigative committee has launched a murder investigation after a top scientist was found dead in his Moscow apartment yesterday.
Andrey Botikov, known as one of the 18 scientists who worked on the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in 2020, was identified as the man who had been strangled to death with a belt in northwest Moscow.
It was previously reported he had survived the encounter after an intruder broke into his home and started rowing with him over money.
The Investigative Committee of Russia said they found the suspect in 'the shortest possible time' after he tried to flee the scene.
They claim he confessed to the crime during an interrogation.
The committee also reported the defendant had already been prosecuted for committing another 'serious' crime.
Russian media reported that the suspect, known as Alexei Z, had spent 10 years in prison on charges of providing sex services.
Andrey Botikov was a senior researcher at the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology.
He had previously worked at the Russian State Collection of Viruses D.I. Ivanovsky Institute of Virology as a senior scientist.
He was awarded an Order of Merit for the Fatherland for his work on the Sputnik V vaccine.
Sputnik was the first registered combination vector vaccine against Covid-19.
Critics suggested the vaccine was approved without robust research into its safety and efficacy.
A 2021 article in The Lancet nonetheless claimed the vaccine 'appeared safe and effective'.
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You can’t escape the long arm of the Clintons. Not even in mother Russia.
Russia is a lawless thugocracy.
Flashback:
Putin, in COVID-19 vaccine push, says he got Sputnik V shot
June 30, 2021
President Vladimir Putin told Russians on Wednesday to get vaccinated against COVID-19 amid a wave of cases, and said for the first time that he had received Russia’s Sputnik V shot.
But was he vaxxed? /s
Flashback: Russia’s Putin Says He Got COVID Booster Shot
November 22, 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on November 21 that he had received a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot.
“I was revaccinated two hours ago. I feel nothing. I am in normal condition. Everything is all right,” he said on state television channel Rossiya 24.
Putin received the first dose of the domestically developed Sputnik V vaccine in March and became fully vaccinated with a second dose in April. He only announced that he had been vaccinated in June.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-putin-vaccine-booster-/31572600.html
What? Freepers have told me it's a conservative utopia?
Gay rent boy payment dispute?
Refused to be self-fenestrate.
That is what it sounds like to me.
Sounds like Paul Pelosi Part Deux.
No. No Freepers have said that.
And trying to use Russia's government allegedly killing dissidents as justification for US deep-state corruption in Ukraine, spending $$ hundreds of billions, and war-mongering is a sad argument.
Turns out it was a terminator who was supposed to take him out before he developed the vaccine. Oops.
A guy can dream.
Sigh.
Mafia Law.
LOL!
Putin should get another booster. To prove he is stronk as bull.
You guys are so full of it. I have never advocated any military action. Find one post where I did. It's all lies.
I have been called a Neocon and other insults, only because I criticize Russia and Putin. So being a "Neocon" now has nothing to do with advocating war, it just means you refuse to worship Putin like a messiah.
If you hate the United States and love Russia, why don't you go and fight in the war you cheerlead for every day.
Again, no one on FR is worshipping Putin as a messiah. It again resorting to "straw-man" arguments
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