'''Leonid Slutsky''' is a [[Russian]] politician, Deputy in the [[Russian State Duma]] and chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Slutsky unsuccessfully ran for President of the [[Russian Federation]] in the [[Russia#2024_Presidential_elections|2024 Russian Presidential election]] as the nominee of the [[Liberal Democratic Party of Russia]].
'''Leonid Slutsky''' is a [[Russian]] politician, Deputy in the [[Russian State Duma]] and chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Slutsky unsuccessfully ran for President of the [[Russian Federation]] in the [[Russia#2024_Presidential_elections|2024 Russian Presidential election]] as the nominee of the [[Liberal Democratic Party of Russia]].
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who is a member of the committee, issued a statement:
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==US biological weapons labs in Ukraine==
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[[File:DTRA contractors in Ukraine.png|left|250px|thumb|Metabiota, a company financed by Hunter Biden's [[Rosemont Seneca]] partnership with the [[CCP]], receives the lion's share of Defense Department funding for its Ukrainian bio labs.<ref>https://archive.fo/fVtcf</ref>]]
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[[File:DTRA contractors in Ukraine.png|left|250px|thumb|Metabiota, a company financed by [[Hunter Biden]]'s [[Rosemont Seneca]] partnership with the [[CCP]], receives the lion's share of [[US Defense Department]] funding for its Ukrainian bio labs.<ref>https://archive.fo/fVtcf</ref>]]
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On March 22, 2022, the Russian state [[Duma]] established a parliamentary commission to investigate the [[American]] biological laboratories operating in [[Ukraine]].<ref>https://interkomitet.com/live/leonid-slutsky-the-state-duma-almost-unanimously-voted-for-a-parliamentary-investigation-into-the-circumstances-of-the-creation-of-biological-laboratories-on-the-territory-of-ukraine/</ref> Deputy Leonid Slutsky, who is a member of the committee, issued a statement:
{{quotebox-float|Russia will continue to raise the issue of the need to investigate US activities in the field of biological research, including in the UN structures. Obviously, we can talk about a direct violation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons (BTWC).
{{quotebox-float|Russia will continue to raise the issue of the need to investigate US activities in the field of biological research, including in the UN structures. Obviously, we can talk about a direct violation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons (BTWC).