Navy Times and the Moscow Times that the Russian Navy has decided to deactivate the Typhoon class submarines (i.e. Red October and all that). The I read in the New York Times that a Russian bio-warfare scientist died of Ebola after accidently sticking herself with a needle of the disease. She worked for Vector which is where all sorts of nasty stuff was developed. The head of Vector is Lev Sandakhchiev and he is one of the board of director of the Institute I’m dealing with. Bet he is a bit busy. I’ve been asked to start a VC fund in Russia to help commercially develop Russian technology for the Western markets. We’ll see what comes of that…]]>
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