{"id":1203876,"date":"2022-01-10T07:34:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1203876"},"modified":"2022-01-10T07:35:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:35:02","slug":"kazakhstan-denies-that-u-s-funded-military-biological-laboratory-has-been-seized-by-rioters-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kazakhstan-denies-that-u-s-funded-military-biological-laboratory-has-been-seized-by-rioters-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan Denies That U.S.-Funded \u2018Military Biological Laboratory\u2019 Has Been Seized By Rioters: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkazakhstan-denies-that-u-s-funded-military-biological-laboratory-has-been-seized-by-rioters-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1203876&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Officials in Kazakhstan have denied that a \u201cmilitary biological laboratory\u201d was seized during widespread unrest in the country that was sparked by rioters last week over skyrocketing fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called the rioters \u201ca band of terrorists\u201d and authorized Russian military forces to \u201cfire without warning\u201d on those behind the riots after declaring the country under attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/kazakhstan-denies-us-funded-bio-lab-was-seized-by-protesters\/ar-AASATwE\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Russian media highlighted claims that the US-funded facility near Almaty was compromised, resulting in a possible leak of dangerous pathogens. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The airport, mayor\u2019s office and secret services buildings fell briefly into the hands of rioters during a wave of protests backed by shadowy armed cells. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The secret bio-laboratory funded by the US defense department \u2013 which has links to Russian and Chinese scientists \u2013 was also compromised in the disturbances, according to social media claims that it was seized. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Official Russian news agency TASS had highlighted alleged social media reports that it was taken over by \u201cunidentified people&#8217;\u201dand \u201cspecialists in chemical protection suits were working near the lab so a leak of dangerous pathogens could have occurred.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The laboratory\u2019s existence has been controversial and in 2020 the country formally denied that it was being used to make biological weapons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not true,\u201d said the health ministry which is responsible for the Central Reference Laboratory. \u201cThe facility is being guarded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erica Marat, a professor at National Defense University, a military university in Washington, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/08\/world\/europe\/kazakhstan-russia.html\">said<\/a> that Tokayev\u2019s move to rely on Russia to help quash the violence meant that he \u201ctraded his country\u2019s sovereignty to Russia for his own power and the interests of kleptocratic elites\u201d and that the move \u201cis really about making Kazakhstan a more submissive, more loyal partner\u201d to &nbsp;\u201cRussia against the West in geopolitical and global matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The political destabilization in Kazakhstan is a direct threat to Russia as this is now the third uprising against an authoritarian nation aligned with Russia over the last several years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chaos threatens to undermine Moscow\u2019s sway in the region at a time when Russia is trying to assert its economic and geopolitical power in countries like Ukraine and Belarus,\u201d The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/05\/world\/asia\/kazakhstan-protests.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe countries of the former Soviet Union are also watching the protests closely, and the events in Kazakhstan could help energize opposition forces elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The instability in the country is also a threat to U.S. interests from an energy perspective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKazakhstan also matters to the United States, as it has become a significant country for American energy concerns, with Exxon Mobil and Chevron having invested tens of billions of dollars in western Kazakhstan, the region where the unrest began this month,\u201d The Times added. \u201cAlthough it has close ties with Moscow, consecutive Kazakh governments have also maintained close links to the United States, with oil investment seen as a counterweight to Russian influence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Kazakhstan have denied that a \u201cmilitary biological laboratory\u201d was seized during widespread unrest in the country that was sparked by rioters last week over skyrocketing fuel prices. Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called the rioters \u201ca band of terrorists\u201d and authorized Russian military forces to \u201cfire without warning\u201d on those behind the riots after &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}