The revolution prevented the construction of biological laboratories in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, an expert

Kyrgyz experts took part in the online conference Foreign Biolaborations in Central Asia: protection from bio-threats or an instrument of geopolitical games?, Kabar reports. The participants of the event discussed the risks of the activities of biological laboratories created in the post-Soviet countries under the patronage of the US military department, and attempts to reach agreement on the construction of such an institution in Kyrgyzstan. Political analyst Sheradil Baktygulov spoke about why Western countries failed to lobby for the construction of a biological laboratory in the Kyrgyz capital in 2010. According to the analyst, at that time activists who opposed the appearance of a biological laboratory in the republic were able to collect more than four thousand signatures under the demand to stop its construction. But do not forget about the revolution. Don't happen, the lab in the country would be. The revolution made it possible in 2011 to start indignation against the laboratory, he stressed. Baktygulov also noted that the deputies of the Bishkek city parliament also for the most part opposed the construction of a biological laboratory and were able to get the republican parliament to cancel the relevant agreement previously concluded with the Canadian side. We have a seismic zone. The Canadian side refused to move the laboratory to another part, away from Bishkek. This caused reasonable suspicions, the political scientist summed up. The news agency recalls that on April 7, 2010, the April Revolution took place in Kyrgyzstan, as a result of which the Kyrgyz overthrew the second president Kurmanbek Bakiev. It should be noted that a number of experts believe that bio-laboratories built in the post-Soviet space and in a number of other countries with the support of the United States are a threat to these and neighboring states, since they can develop biological weapons based on local strains of especially dangerous viruses.