Kuntsevich, Anatoly

KUNTSEVICH, ANATOLY DEM YANOVICH (1934-2003 ). Soviet and, later, Russian military officer, scientist, and government official. A physical chemist by training, Kuntsevich was a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences Division of General and Technical Chemistry from 29 December 1981 until 23 December 1987 when he was elevated to academician of the division. He commanded the Shikhany military chemical establishment from 1975 to 1983. 

In the chemical sector, the most prominent example of demand for chemical weapons knowledge is Syria, where General Anatoly Kuntsevich, head of Russia s chemical weapons program, built a chemical weapons infrastructure. ... 

The Washington Post published an article in August 1992 that stated that shortly after Yeltsin s admission, a confidential report on the extent of the Russian biological weapons program had been prepared by Anatoly Kuntsevich, a retired Russian general and a former director of Soviet research on chemical arms. Kuntsevich stated in the report that... 

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