Soviet regulations

The recent increase in the number of scientific and commercial contacts with Western institutions and companies will probably result in the elimination of any differences that exist between Western and Soviet regulations and procedures governing microbiological containment. A good example of just such an instance is the recent purchase by the M.M. Shemyakin Institute of Bio-organic Chemistry in Moscow of a P3 containment laboratory from the UK company Porton International. As part of the contract with Porton, Russian scientists visited the UK to receive on-site training in the procedures governing the use of their new laboratory. 

In the former Soviet Union much use is made of industrial by-products to prepare acid inhibitors. The PB class is obtained by treating technical butyraldehyde with ammonia and polymerising the resulting aldehyde-ammonia. PB-5, for example, with O-Ol-O-15% of an arsenic salt is used in 20-25% HCl. A mixture of urotropine (hexamethyleneimine, hexamine) with potassium iodide, a regulator and a foaming agent is the ChM inhibitor. BA-6 is prepared from the condensation product of hexamine with aniline. A more recent development is the Katapin series which consists of /7-alkyl benzyl pyridine chlorides Katapin A, for example, is the /7-dodecyl compound. 

AK-47 Also known as Kalashnikov, named for its orginator, it is an originally Soviet-built automatic rifle that is used widely throughout the world in insurgencies and other conflicts. An AK-47 is regulated (and often banned) as an assault weapon. 

Bioterrorism may occur in the United States today because we cannot be beaten with conventional methods. We do not know how much brain drain occurred in the former Soviet Union, and the dual-use nature will never allow the problem to be dealt with through regulation. In the event of an attack, it would be ideal to have a universal detector that would simply indicate yes or no to the... 

Translations of the Soviet patent law enacted March 5, 1941, and of the regulations issued November 27, 1942, were published by Charles Prince, formerly Soviet Russian expert, U. S. Chamber of Commerce (260),... 

When Altshuller introduced the original version of TRIZ, he also included the third type of contradictions, administrative contradictions. These contradictions identify the contradictive administrative regulations that must be also eliminated, or at least creatively avoided, by inventors. Later, however, these contradictions disappeared from Altshuller s publications. Most likely, they finally caught the attention of censors, who decided that there were no administrative contradictions in the Soviet Union and thus writing about them might give readers the wrong impression as to their existence. 

Biotechnology and industrial microbiology regulations in Russia and the former Soviet republics... 

Zilinskas also reports that Soviet scientists who studied or worked in the West claimed that the rules they followed at home were similar to those found in Western laboratories. In support of this claim is the fact that there would appear to have been subsequent modifications to the initial Soviet r-DNA guidelines that reflect the general downgrading of regulations in other nations. It would appear, then, that in the late 1970s and early... 

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