Vil Mirzayanov

Vil Mirzayanov was a Russian chemist who now lives in the United States.

Mirzayanov was employed by the State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology. He was fired and imprisoned on charges of treason for having revealed the existence of illegal chemical weapons experimentation in Russia contravening the 1990 Chemical Weapons Accord and Wyoming Memorandum of Understanding. Later he also accused Russia of violating Chemical Weapons Convention. He was released because the details he had released were already known.

See also

• Novichok agent

References

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Biography of Vil Mirzayanov
• Fedorov, Lev and Vil Mirzayanov, "Poisoned Politics," Moskovskiye Novosti weekly No. 39, 1992. Much of this information was published earlier in the newspaper "Top Secret" run by Artyom Borovik in September 1991. However the KGB did not arrest Mirzayanov earlier due to political turmoil in Russia at this time, according to a book by Yevgenia Albats.
• Chemical Weapons: An Expose
• "Dismantling the Soviet/Russian Chemical Weapons Complex"