[mac_truck]

Russia also received funding from those programs and they were publicly discussed at the time.

Your source for this neo-liberal propaganda?

[pierrem15]

The US funded former bio-labs and scientists all over the former Soviet Union to prevent any outbreaks of pathogens and to prevent the scientists there from hiring themselves out to others for bio-weapons research.

We even bought a large quantity of plutonium from Russia for the same reason and helped them to make sure their nukes were secure after the Soviet Union collapsed.

A lot of this work was done through the International Science and Technology Center, funded mainly by the EU, US and Japan.

You can view their annual reports here: https://www.istc.int/view-reports