15. Jul 2019

Edmund Berger, Kevin Rogan: YAMAL EVENTS REPORT 2071

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The past year’s events in and around the Port of Sabetta should give NATO pause, though they have doubtlessly worked in her favor. The Russian Federation’s ongoing political crisis threatens to lead to a global collapse of legitimacy if not sufficiently contained. At this juncture, SACEUR has proposed an extensive re-evaluation in not just pacification efforts, but has also strengthened cooperation with key partners in a new theater of biological warfare.

The smallpox outbreak (along with other unforeseen circumstances) was successfully capitalized on by a large number of frontier political groups who, previously scattered and focused on petty grievances, were able to constitute an efficacious political coalition with violent aims, similar to the NAPR Popular Resistance Army (then “Kwela Nchebe Brigades”) of the 8 Hours’ War in 2036. NATO has long weathered an increasingly asymmetric world, and emerged stronger for it; but sometimes our past returns to teach us new lessons.

This document cache you are viewing now represents a windfall for NATO stability projection measures. Counterintelligence operatives were able to extract a large amount of raw text data from [x] server backups surrounding the Yamal events. The readability of these documents is minimal; they are not intended for human viewing and existed only for indexing purposes. That said, Operation OPEN EYE has been convened within both USDHS-CY and NATO/CY-OP as a joint task force in order to allow these documents to be reviewed by agency experts. OPEN EYE continues apace. Set your notifications for this document and CY-OP_GEN to be informed of the latest updates on OPEN EYE. Clearance level ACCEPT-CELEST NATO SS CGI [_failure-]

 

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Les événements de l’année dernière dans et autour du Port de Sabetta devraient donner à l’OTAN une pause, même s’ils ont sans aucun doute joué en sa faveur. La crise politique actuelle de la Fédération de Russie risque d’entraîner un effondrement mondial de la légitimité, si elle n’est pas suffisamment maîtrisée. À ce stade, le SACEUR a proposé une réévaluation approfondie non seulement des efforts de pacification, mais également d’une coopération renforcée avec des partenaires clés sur un nouveau théâtre de la guerre biologique.

L’épidémie de variole (ainsi que d’autres circonstances imprévues) a été exploitée avec succès par un grand nombre de groupes politiques frontaliers qui, auparavant dispersés et concentrés sur de petites réclamations, pouvaient constituer une coalition politique efficace aux objectifs violents, semblable à la NAPR « Popular Resistance Army » (alors appelée « Brigades Kwela Nchebe ») de la « Guerre des 8 Heures » en 2036. L’OTAN a longtemps traversé un monde de plus en plus asymétrique et en est ressortie plus forte; mais parfois notre passé revient pour nous apprendre de nouvelles leçons.

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From: Elliot Esfahani

To: Viktor Cherepanov, Alexei Petrov

Date: 2071-03-02 19:37

Subject: Progress Update

 

Dear M. Cherepanov,

I’m writing to let you know that considerable progress is being made on the excavation of the burial sites. As of this evening, only site Alpha has been fully processed, but we hope that Beta will be completed by this time tomorrow. A formal report will of course be drafted and sent your way when this primary phase is complete; in the meantime here is what we know.

The dig at Site Alpha has uncovered a solitary funerary chest of an unknown type of wood. It measures 3.35 meters long, 1.38 meters wide, and 0.76 meters high. Within this chest were the mummified remains of two children and one adult: a male of approximately 6 years, a female of approximately 8 years, and a female adult of 22 years.

Site Beta has yielded far more, with three funerary caskets. The first of these measures at 3.22 meters long, 1.37 meters wide, and 0.64 meters long. Inside are two adults, one male of approximately 39 years of age and a female of approximately 35 years of age. Work has yet to start on two other funerary caskets, but the full details should be present in tomorrow’s report.

Also worth mentioning – the level of preservation of the bodies, due primarily to the permafrost, is remarkable!

Best,

Elliot

 

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From: Alexei Petrov

To: Stepan Fridman

Subject: Re: Tambeyskoye Find

2071-03-05 11:26

 

To date, 4 burial sites have been found near the main Tambov oil and gas fields. Each of them is characterized by repeating elements: wooden graves made small as a result of melting permafrost, dating from about the end of the 18th century. What makes these sites the most unusual is that each grave appears to have been used for mass graves, with up to six bodies on the “site”. According to Dr. Elliot Isfahani, who is currently observing the excavations, makes this anomaly the fact that the indigenous people of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous district have historically demonstrated burial practices organized around the person. When asked about the significance of this, she told me that there could be “no reason other than those causing nightmares” why there would be a series of mass graves in this region.

Isfahani also added that a similar discovery was made in 2004 by a joint Russian-French archaeological group in the Siberian region of the Republic of Sakha. As in the case of Tambeyskoye, this grave included the bodies (5) family and has been dated to the late eighteenth century. It is important that the body has been shown to be potentially died from hemorrhagic episodes, triggered by a particularly virulent strain of smallpox. Because of the well-preserved nature of the bodies, Isfahani recommends that vector be notified immediately and quarantine protocols introduced prior to their arrival-this may seem extreme, but it’s better to be on the side of caution. No need for another episode of anthrax.

 

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From: Alexei Petrov

To: Isaak Alban, Anatoly Temko

Subject: Re: URGENT

2071-03-06 04:12

 

Boss says we need to move forward on quarantine procedures. Let’s start with color code orange in Tambov region. No quarantine, just blue for the rest of the Peninsula. Hu will lead round-up, so I suggest we have all the personal files and contact information for him when he arrives in Sabetta tomorrow morning.

Currently, a VECTOR team is flying from Novosibirsk to assess the condition of the victims to inspect the recovered bodies, which are currently on the ice of the Nadym morgue. Anatoly, you must meet them and escort them there – as soon as I have the flight arrival time, I will send them to you..

 

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From: Isaak Alban
To: Alexei Petrov

Subject: Re: URGENT

2071-03-06 04:20

 

I’m not sure what “personal matters” you mean.

>Boss says we need to move forward on quarantine procedures. Let’s start with color code orange in >Tambov region. No quarantine, just blue for the rest of the Peninsula. Hu will lead round-up, so I >suggest we have all the personal files and contact information for him when he arrives in Sabetta >tomorrow morning.

Currently, a VECTOR team is flying from Novosibirsk to assess the condition of the victims to >inspect the recovered bodies, which are currently on the ice of the Nadym morgue. Anatoly, you must >meet them and escort them there – as soon as I have the flight arrival time, I will send them to you..

 

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To: Isaak Alban

From: Alexei Petrov

Subject: Re: URGENT

2071-03-06 04:22

 

Personal files of Tambov field workers and contractors present at the alpha site.

>I’m not sure what “personal matters” you mean.

>>Boss says we need to move forward on quarantine procedures. Let’s start with color code orange in >>Tambov region. No quarantine, just blue for the rest of the Peninsula. Hu will lead round-up, so I >>suggest we have all the personal files and contact information for him when he arrives in Sabetta >>tomorrow morning.

>>Currently, a VECTOR team is flying from Novosibirsk to assess the condition of the victims to >>inspect the recovered bodies, which are currently on the ice of the Nadym morgue. Anatoly, you >>must meet them and escort them there – as soon as I have the flight arrival time, I will send them to >>you..

>>>[…]

 

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From: Isaak Alban

To: Alexei Petrov

Subject: Re: URGENT

2071-03-06 04:30

 

Alexey, there is simply no system of systematic accounting of the bulk of our main workforce. Maybe if you came here from time to time, you’d better understand how things work (or don’t work, whatever).

I can get your files on the contractors. Let Hu know he shouldn’t expect to easily

>The personnel files for Tambeyskoye field workers and contractors who were present at Site Alpha.

>>I’m not sure what ‘personnel files’ that you’re referring to.

>>>[…]

 

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From: Anatoly Temko

To: Isaak Alban, Alexei Petrov

Subject: Re: URGENT

2071-03-08 14:04

 

Vector’s people will contact you in a few hours, but I thought you might want to hear it from me first. They say they have confirmed the smallpox / smallpox genome in bodies, with the length of viral threads suggesting intact viruses. Alexei, they’re running tests, but they say it’s probably transmitted.

They also found traces of iron in the lungs of several bodies. I’m not sure what this means, but the doctors are excited about ‘hemorrhagic smallpox’.

 

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From: automatic.gprom

To: YOU

Subject: Daily Situation Circuit

2071-05-07 12:33

 

Report warning of ‘potential infectious diseases in Yamal permafrost’ suppressed by Gazprom, says critics

“Doctor Elliot Esfahani was working on this dig site, codenamed ‘Beta’, when she was taken ill”

ANNE FAULKES

BBC Senior Moscow Correspondent

7 May 2071

A report warning of “potentially infectious diseases buried deep in the Yamal permafrost” was suppressed by Gazprom to prevent investor uncertainty in the region’s developmental megaproject, says members of Friends of Earth Russia, the Russian section of the international environmental watchdog group.

Rumours of the report had begun circulating in April, when it became known that the Yamal Peninsula was the site of a smallpox outbreak that has now claimed the lives of 332 individuals. The source of the outbreak were graves, dating to the late 1800s, that were uncovered by construction workers.

The report in question was allegedly drafted in 2064 by a team from Oxford University led by Nick Brenner, an American ‘existential risk analyst’. According to those who have reviewed its contents, Brenner warned that the Russian permafrost was “a veritable melting pot for incredibly dangerous pathogens, those both known and unknown”. Brenner goes on to suggest that the positioning of the Yamal Peninsula as an international hub for the shipping industry, the situation “is nothing short of a looming catastrophe”.

Brenner, who passed away last year, was “dismissed by Gazprom executives as a crank and charlatan”, according to a former team member who wishes to remain anonymous. “The team felt it would be best to do seismic refraction surveys and geoelectric mappings of the entire peninsula to identify human and animal burial sites that could be hotbeds for pathogen. This suggestion was seen as beyond the pale. They sent us home and more or less squashed the report.”

“If the allegations surrounding the Brenner report are true, this is serious cause for concern,” said Didier Langois, spokesperson for the French multinational oil-and-gas firm Total S.A. Total has been a major partner in the Yamal development project since 2017.

Among the known casualties is Doctor Elliot Esfahani, a French national. Doctor Esfahani had been overseeing the archaeological excavation efforts that unearthed the infected bodies after their initial discovery.

It is unknown at this point whether the outbreak will continue or if the international response has slowed its advance. Experimental vaccines are currently being used to treat the afflicted, and World Health Organization says it is “cautiously optimistic”.

 

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From: automatic.gprom

To: YOU

Subject: Daily Situation Circuit

2071-05-23 07:42

 

Gunmen raid corporate office amidst Yamal crisis

ALAN CENRY

BBC Moscow Junior Correspondent

23 May 2071

Russian investigators are probing an attack on Gazprom corporate offices on the Yamal Peninsula.

On 22 May, a group of eight assailants reportedly broke into a building owned by the oil-and-gas corporation Gazprom, tying-up, beating, and intimidating people the people inside.

Who’s behind it?

According to local media, the masked gunmen made off with computers and other important electronic equipment. Gazprom has yet to make a full announcement of the attack, though sources close to the company’s leadership state the suspicion is on groups “disenfranchised by elongated time-table of the smallpox relief expert”. The Yamal Peninsula is currently in the midst of an outbreak of hemorrhagic smallpox.

“There are allegations that vaccines are being withheld from the general public,” the source continued, before adding that “such speculation is not only unfounded, but immensely dangerous.”

Captain Adam Svoboda of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Police Force, casts doubt on the suggestions that the attacks were carried out by common criminals capitalising on regional disorder. He reportedly told local media sources that the operation “appears to have been planned and executed perfectly, like something you would expect from a sophisticated military cell”.

Russian state investigators are remaining tight-lipped, though they have told BBC that Captain Svoboda’s scenario is exceedingly unlikely.

The only thing that’s clear so far is that this story is just beginning.

 

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From: A. Petrov

To: A. Temko

Subject: Re: Keeping it contained.

2071-05-23 04:56

 

The contents of the hard disk are associated with an old report that we do not want publish. That’s all you need to know. Mop-up should know even less

>Nice to know what permission my guys have.

>>[…]

 

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From: A. Temko

To: T. Pociejewski, H.Z

Subject: Re: Theft

2071-05-23 05:09

 

Attached is a list of the missing shit. Alexei is losing it – it is a mission priority. Let’s keep this loop open but restricted. I’m buying drinks when this is over.

>[…]

 

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From: T. Pociejewksi

To: A. Temko, H.Z.

Subject: Re: Theft

2071-05-23 05:11

 

That’s what you said in Yakutsk! Tell Alexey that I’m still half deaf from this.

We already have some theories about what happened here. They were clever in planning, but stupid in execution, thus shooting at the ceiling. The caliber of such an ability could reach the peninsula through a very small handful of not so legitimate sources. Some of these people are friendly, so Hu says he will make several visits. Mop-up goes to others

>Attached is a list of the missing shit. Alexei is losing it – it is a mission priority. Let’s keep this loop >open but restricted. I’m buying drinks when this is over.

>>[…]

 

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From: H.Z.

To: A. Temko, T. Pociejewski

Subject: Re: Theft

2071-05-23 08:24

 

Nothing from friends.

>That’s what you said in Yakutsk! Tell Alexey that I’m still half deaf from this.

>We already have some theories about what happened here. They were clever in planning, but stupid in >execution, thus shooting at the ceiling. The caliber of such an ability could reach the peninsula >through a very small handful of not so legitimate sources. Some of these people are friendly, so Hu >says he will make several visits. Mop-up goes to others

>>Attached is a list of the missing shit. Alexei is losing it – it is a mission priority. Let’s keep this loop >>open but restricted. I’m buying drinks when this is over.

>>>[…]

 

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From: T. Pociejewski

To: A. Temko, H.Z.

2071-05-23

13:14

 

Boys, this is a good day! Undocumented American arms dealers love to say when you beat them long enough. It looks like our militants live in a squat camp eight miles south of the Exchange, right by the bay.

SOBR brigades are ready, and VG specialists are flying airbound.

>Nothing from friends.

>>That’s what you said in Yakutsk! Tell Alexey that I’m still half deaf from this.

>>We already have some theories about what happened here. They were clever in planning, but stupid >>in execution, thus shooting at the ceiling. The caliber of such an ability could reach the peninsula >>through a very small handful of not so legitimate sources. Some of these people are friendly, so Hu >>says he will make several visits. Mop-up goes to others

>>>[…]

 

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From: A. Temko

To: T. Pociejewski, H.Z.

2071-05-2313:15

 

Make sure the VG comes in first. We need the strict authority of interrogation here. Time to close the loop .

>Boys, this is a good day! Undocumented American arms dealers love to say when you beat them >long enough. It looks like our militants live in a squat camp eight miles south of the Exchange, right >by the bay.

>SOBR brigades are ready, and VG specialists are flying airbound.

>>Nothing from friends.

>>>[…]

 

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From: automatic.gprom

To: YOU

Subject: Daily Situation Circuit

2071-05-24 07:31

 

Left-Wing Militant Group Banned on Yamal Peninsula

BY THE SIBERIAN TIMES

24 May 2071

The left-wing militant group “Workers Action” has been outlawed by Yamal Peninsula administrators, officials say.

The decision to outlaw the group came after a pre-dawn police raid that uncovered a sizable weapons cache. It is unknown how many members of the group were arrested in the course of the raid.

“That groups like Workers Action would seek to spread disorder is generally unfathomable. It becomes doubly so when considering the times we are in,” said Yamal administration official Alexei Petrov, referring the ongoing outbreak of smallpox.

When asked what led to the raid, Petrov commented that “swift police action” in the wake of last week’s armed robbery of a Gazprom office had led to the discovery of the cache.

Workers Action was formed in 2070 as a split from the International Socialist Liberation Organization, a self-described Russian “Neo-Bolshevik party” that has grown in popularity the past several years.

Even before this recent turn of events The International Socialist Liberation Organization has disavowed Workers Action.

 

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From: automatic.gprom

To: YOU

Subject: Daily Situation Circuit

2071-08-08 07:36

 

One dead, hundreds injured in Russia Vorkuta protest

ANNE FAULKES

BBC Senior Moscow Correspondent

8 August 2071

One protester has died and over 200 were injured as thousands took to the streets in protest of the handling of the region’s recent smallpox outbreak.

The protester has been identified as Oleh Popov, a 19 year old student at the city’s mining college. He was killed when a police officer opened fire on the protesters with live ammunition.

The police officer, whose name is being withheld from the press, has reportedly been suspended pending review. The Vorkuta police department says it did not authorize the usage of live ammunition, and that its riot response tactics, while forceful, are not intended to do significant damage.

The protests are now in their second week, and in the wake of these tragic events they are expected to grow.

Aside from the issue of the smallpox outbreak response, grievances listed by the protesters include police brutality, ecological issues, indigenous rights and working conditions.

 

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From: automatic.gprom

To: YOU

Subject: Daily Situation Circuit

2071-08-16 14:53

 

Russia Salekhard blast: bomb kills two at private military corporation’s office 

ANNE FAULKES

BBC Moscow Senior Correspondent

16 August 2071

Two employees of the Vincit Group, a private military corporation and defense contractor, have been killed by a bomb blast at the company’s Salekhard headquarters, officials say.

The explosives went off just inside the building at around 11:30 (8:30 GMT). Thee explosion caused significant damage.

The Siberian nationalist group True Siberia has taken credit for the attack in document sent to multiple media organizations. The document cites the Vincit Group’s activities on the Yamal Peninsula, the police shooting of student protester Oleh Popov last week, and “Moscow’s continued domination of the mineral heritage of the Siberia people” as the reasons for the bombing.

The Vincit Group has long been a contractor for Gazprom, the Russian oil-and-gas firm that owns much of the Yamal Peninsula. Hu Zheng, an employee of the company who was acting as head of Yamal Peninsula special security, died onboard the MOL Golden last June.

“When trouble stalks the world, Nga rises up from the eternally frozen ground,” True Siberia’s communique concludes, referring to the deity who over the underworld in Nenet cosmology. “You might have thought he came as the illness, but in reality he moves through us.”

 

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From: Alexei Petrov

To: Stepan Fridman

Subject: Uncontained

 

RED BLOC REPORT

Siberian Ghost Armies (Part 21)

Everybody’s seen the news: comrades in the True Siberian movement have blown a hole in the side of the Salekhard, Russia headquarters of the Vincit Group. Two employees of this private fascists-for-hire firm were killed the explosion and according to the BBC there was significant property damage. With Workers Action stirring up problems in the north and strikes paralyzing Moscow, the petro-state is starting to look shaky.

Here’s what we do know:

• The Vincit Group was registered as a Local Company in Hong Kong in 2066. The registration lists a secondary address in Salekhard (the office that was bombed), and has declared no financial information.
• The Vincit Group’s president is listed as Anton Przedborski. He was formerly the president of two other private military companies, Vincit Network East and Vincit Network West. Both were registered on the same day in 2052, and were each dissolved a month before the registration of the Vincit Group. Vincit Network West had a secondary address in Lexington, Kentucky, and Vincit Network East had a secondary address that is the same as the current Vincit Group. It would seem that, for all intents and purposes the two Vincit Networks and the current Vincit Group are one and the same.
• The building in Salekhard where the Vincit Group was located was owned by the Novatek Group until it was absorbed by Gazprom in 2048. At this point Gazprom assumed ownership.
• The Vincit Group was Gazprom’s de facto enforcement arm in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. On the peninsula it wasn’t just corporate security, it was the only police.
• Vincit operated in the Middle East, hired to protect both Russian and Chinese pipelines and even to give Americans tactical support. Same of the same personnel who were operating in these active warzones were rotated north to serve as ‘peace officers’ in Yamal. One example of this was ‘special security’ chief Hu Zheng, who spent over a year in Qatar before taking up post in Russia.

The reason for the Hong Kong registration is likely due to the banning of PMCs in Russia. This convenient loophole has a long history, going back nearly 70 years, when mercenary outfits like the Wagner Group set up shop there. It’s also attracted Western PMC firms: prior to their disbanding in the wake of the ‘Cartagena Incident’, the American outfit New Frontier Services were registered in Hong Kong, as is the British Carrier Solutions Limited.

This commodification of war has unleashed a literal anarchy across globe. The employees of these companies are ghost soldiers, hired by nations to do their dirty work that their official armies cannot do. We’re not surprised to learn that rumors of “death-masked soldiers” (to quote one source) were operating as licensed hit-squads during the Yamal Peninsula outbreak. For those curious what these ‘death masks’ might be, consider this: images of Vincit Group operators in Syria and Qatar shows soldiers with their faces obscured by skull masks. Hmm….

Death to the International Capitalist Pig Order! Down with their criminal foot-soldiers!

For more on the Vincit Group and related organizations, be sure to check out these older posts:

• “The Atrocity Museum”: Pursuing private ghost armies across Qatar
• Behind and Beyond Geopolitics: PMCs without nations
• Capital’s Marching Dogs and the Kuwait Civil War
• The Riyadh-Yamal Circuit

 

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STATE RESEARCH CENTRE OF VIROLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

 

Hemorrhagic Smallpox Fact-Sheet [draft copy: do not circulate!]

Smallpox is an acute, contagious disease. Caused by the variola virus, smallpox was one of the most deadly diseases in human history until its eradication by global immunization campaigns by the World Health Organization (WHO) and partner countries in the 1970s. The recent events in the Siberian regions of the Russian Federation, however, have led the WHO to declare smallpox an active, existential threat to interconnected global civilization. In the worlds of WHO president Katrin Jónsdóttir, “the resurgence of smallpox in Russia, along with recent cholera outbreaks in the typhoon-devastated Philippines, highlights the ubiquity of the dangers we face in this age of runaway climate change.”

Smallpox is primarily spread by direct, face-to-face contact and saliva droplets. It has an incubation period of roughly a week to two-week span from the moment of exposure. The first symptoms include a high fever, abdominal pains, vomiting, pharyngitis and headaches. It is at this point the infected individuals are themselves at their most infectious. Subsequent symptoms include a characteristic skin-rash. A petechial rash is known to occur. During the ʻeruptive phaseʼ of the disease, the fever subsides and rash lesions will develop. These tend to occur first in the mouth and throat, before spreading to the face and the extremities. Over the course of the next 4 to 5 days, the rash lesions grow from macules (small, flash, patches of discolored skin) to papules (a raised swelling on the skin, inflamed but usually devoid of pus) to vesicles (fluid or pus-filled blisters) before scabbing or crusting over. The mortality rate for smallpox is 20-30%.

Hemorrhagic smallpox is a rarer, more deadly form of the disease. While the most prevalent forms of the variola virus have an approximately a two-week incubation period, the incubation period for hemorrhagic strains is far shorter. Transmission of hemorrhagic smallpox, which occurs through face-to-face contact and fluid exchange, is therefore capable of spreading rapidly. Many of the symptoms of hemorrhagic smallpox are identical to those of common smallpox strains, though the intensity of those systems is significantly amplified. Unlike the common variants, hemorrhagic smallpox tends to induce a deep reddening of the skin which gives way to petechiae and hemorrhages of the skin and mucous membranes. With a mortality rate nearing 90%, death from hemorrhages smallpox is occurs with a week of symptom appearance and is the result of hemorrhaging, toxemia, and catastrophic organ failure.

Can smallpox be treated?

• There is no cure for smallpox, but vaccination can prevent infection if taken within an appropriate window (roughly four to five days after exposure). Similarly, preliminary vaccination programs has be shown to be largely successful, having been at the forefront of the World Health Organization’s late-twentieth century smallpox program.

What vaccines are available?

• There are currently four generations of licensed vaccines: ACAM2000, LC16m8, MVA, and RP90b. Research and development for a fifth generation has recently been initiated, through time to market, but less trials, is in all likelihood years away.

Are the available vaccines effective for treating hemorrhagic strains of smallpox?

• Preliminary vaccination does not prevent hemorrhagic smallpox infection, nor does slow or halt the progression of the disease.

 

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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

VARIOLA VIRUS SITUATION REPORT 9 JUNE 2071

Summary

 

• A total of 1,672 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of variola virus (VARV) have been reported in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation up the end of 9 June. No firm accounting of total fatalities has been officially determined as of this same dates. Estimates range from 600 on the low end to 1500 on the high end.
• High-density outbreak clusters are confined primarily to the northern part of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, primarily in the Yamal Peninsula. There is considerable evidence to suggest a declining rate of transmission in the rest of the administrative region, though under-reporting of cases and deaths remains a possibility. On-site World Health Organization (WHO) specialists recommend a staggered, scale-based assessment program going forward.
• In the three week of 2071 June WHO will be rolling out a new Smallpox Response Roadmap. This Roadmap will proceed along five major planks:
  • Increased accuracy and availability in case reporting, based on systems and mechanisms developed by on-the-ground actors from WHO and partner organizations, namely the Russian State Research Centre for Virology and Biotechnology (VECTOR) and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Transmission (CDC).
  • The creation of a joint WHO-VECTOR Intra-Agency Collaboration to replace the cumbersome Arctic Crisis Council (ACC).
  • New guidelines for safe and dignified burials.
  • Social mobilization and full community engagement in contact tracing and risk mitigation.
  • The implementation of an integrated, multi-scaled and participatory intra-agency programme to ensure the continuity of essential and supportive services in containment areas (primary healthcare, psychosocial support, food).
• Situation reports are now presented in a web-based format to provide detailed information at the administrative district level, including data and maps, in a more interactive way.

 

 

 

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

VARIOLA VIRUS SITUATION REPORT 21 JULY 2071

 

SUMMARY

 

• 22 new confirmed cases of variola virus (VARV) were reported in the week to 21 July, all of which were reported in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. The country had reported 14 cases in the previous two weeks. Of these cases, 12 were reported in the Tambeyskoye Administrative District, 7 were reported in the town of Nadym, and 3 were reported in the city of Salekhard. Of note, 4 of the Tambeyskoye cases and 1 case from Salekhard were identified after post-mortem testing. The mortality rate in the Nadym cluster is at present unknown.
• The Kharasaveyskoye Administrative District reports zero new cases in the past week. The district has now entered into a 120-day period of enhanced surveillance scheduled to conclude on 20 October 2071.
• Confirmed incidences of human-to-human VARV transmission remains predominantly bound to the southern and south-eastern regions of the Yamalo-Neneats Autonomous Okrug’s Yamal Peninsula. The closed geographical density of the transmission clustering indicates successful application of WHO-recommended containment procedures. Although expectation of expanded transmission remains low, the increase of reported cases in the week of 21 July has led the State Research Centre for Virology and Biotechnology (VECTOR) to maintain alert status at phase-4.[1]
• The phase-4 response, developed by the joint WHO-VECTOR Intra-agency Collaboration on VARV,[2] builds on and adapts WHO’s ebola virus mitigation and containment program to eliminate case incidents and drive virus transmission to zero.
• In order to effectively manage and respond to the consequences of the continued risk, the Russian Federation has put surveillance systems in place to enable health workers and members of the public to report any cases of illness or death that they suspect may be related to VARV to the relevant authorities. The Russian government, with support from partners including WHO and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has implemented additional screening procedures for oil-and gas workers from the Tambeyskaya and Malyginskoye administrative districts.
• The deployment of rapid response teams following the detection of new outbreak clusters continues to be a cornerstone of the Russian Federation’s national and subnational response strategy.

 

 

 

 

 

Date	Type	Category	Affiliation	Detained
05/24/71	Friendly Action	Raid	Friend	8

 

	Enemy	Friend	Civilian
Killed in Action	[unknown]	[unknown]	0
Wounded in Action	[unknown]	[unknown]	0

 

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Report Key: 1095

Tracking No.: IX-256984346

Reporting Unit: NOT PROVIDED

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ATTACHED: INVENTORY CACHE

Type	Item	Quantity
Weapon/Weapon System	AEK 21 Light Machine Gun (LMG)	3
Weapon/Weapon System	AEK 21 Sharpshooter rifle	2
Weapon/Weapon System	AEK Modular Mounting System (MMS)	5
Weapon/Weapon System	AJS-7.62mm	1
Weapon/Weapon System	Armateck HD-96 multipurpose weapon system (MWS)	5
Weapon/Weapon System	Angel Eye multipurpose weapon system (MWS)	1
Weapon/Weapon System	FMR-17 anti-material rifle	1
Weapon/Weapon System	Gentex Warfighter Protection System	2
Weapon/Weapon System	Self-made mines	16
Weapon/Weapon System	ZyfCo Maxim9 handgun	9
Ammunition	5mm caliber	2300
Ammunition	5.56 caliber	5200
Ammunition	9mm caliber	1250
Ammunition	12.7mm caliber	320
Transport	Polaris Snowleopard	6
Clothing	Sornette combat boots	12
Clothing	Sornette tactical helmet and display	12
Clothing	Sornette tactical jacket	12
Clothing	Sornette tactical vest (bulletproof)	5
Computers/computer equipment	Smartbook Folio	2
Computers/computer equipment	Dyntype external hardrive	4
Computers/computer equipment	Portable solar panel and charging station	4
Computers/computer equipment	camera	3
Computers/computer equipment	TrailBuddy Handheld Navigation System	2
Documents/books	Capitalist Domination and Working Class Sabotage	1
Documents/books	Field Medicine	2
Documents/books	U.S. Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare: Devices and Techniques for Incendiaries	1
Documents/books	U.S. Army Special Forces Unconventional Warfare Handbook: Guerrilla Warfare, Resistance & Insurgency: Winning Asymmetric Wars from the Underground	1
Documents/books	The Useful Knots Book	1
Documents/books	Stigmergic Conflict in the Late Neotechnic Era	1
Documents/books	State and Revolution	1
Misc	Camping stove	4
Misc	Cyanide capsule	24
Misc	Electric drill	4
Misc	Flares	30
Misc	Flaregun	3
Misc	Gas can (small)	12
Misc	Gas cans (large)	6
Misc	Gasoline	2400 liters
Misc	Medical kits	24
Misc	MREs	68
Misc	Polaris Snowleopard repair kit	6
Misc	Utility knife (assorted)	5
Misc	Screws (assorted)	300
Misc	Vapex low-temperature sleeping bag	6
Misc	Vapex low-temperature two-man tent	12
Misc	Water (bulk)	3000 liters
Misc	Water (bottled)
Misc	Waterproof matches	64
Misc	Wire (assorted)	120+ meters

 

 

 

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[FOB KOLMOGROV 2071-05-01]

 

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Date	Type	Category	Affiliation	Detained
08/24/71	Enemy Action	Direct Fire	Enemy	6

 

	Enemy	Friend	Civilian
Killed in Action	2	0	0
Wounded in Action	0	1	0

 

WHILE INVESTIGATING A POSSIBLE AMBUSH SITE S-TAK PATROLS CAME UNDER SMALL ARMS FIRE. S-TAK RETURNED FIRE AND MOVED TOWARDS INSURG. (8) – WHO WERE APPREHENDED AND FOUND TO HAVE A SMALL ARMS CACHE. 2 INSURG. KILLED IN ACTION, 6 ARRESTS MADE. S-TAK PATROL SUSTAINED 1 INJURY.

 

Report Key: 5569

Tracking No.: KO-85369100

Reporting Unit: S-TAK 205

Unit Name: S-TAK TIGER-RED

Type of unit: [redacted]

Originator group: UNKNOWN

 

Date	Type	Category	Affiliation	Detained
08/26/71	Enemy Action	Direct Fire	Enemy	0

 

	Enemy	Friend	Civilian
Killed in Action	0	8	0
Wounded in Action	0	1	0

 

WHILE CONDUCTING CHECKPOINT OPERATIONS, VG LTD. EMPLOYEES CAME UNDER FIRE FROM A SKIHAWK ASSAULT DRONE. 3 OF THE OPERATIVES WERE KILLED BY TWO Y4-R66 MISSILES FIRED FROM THE SKIHAWK DRONE. INSURG. TEAMS THEN ADVANCED ON THE CHECKPOINT AND EXECUTED 4 ADDITIONAL OPERATIVES. 1 OPERATIVE RECEIVED WOUNDS TO THE CALF AND KNEE BUT SURVIVED. WITH THE CHECKPOINT CLEARED MULTIPLE INSURG. TEAMS WERE ABLE TO ADVANCE INTO YNAO TERRITORY.

 

Report Key: 5589

Tracking No.: KO-85369320

Reporting Unit: YNAO MEDSURGE 8TH

Unit Name: “NIGHTFIRE”

Originator Group: UNKNOWN

 

 

 

Date	Type	Category	Affiliation	Detained
08/27/71	Enemy Action	Assassination	Enemy	0

 

	Enemy	Friend	Civilian
Killed in Action	0	2	0
Wounded in Action	0	0	0

 

[REDACTED] REPORTED AN ASSASSINATION OF THE VORKUTA POLICE CHIEF (IGOR REZNOV). SUSPECT IS A FEMALE WITH DARK HAIR AND A DARK GREEN JACKET.

UPDATE 08/27: THE VORKUTA POLICE CHIEF AND BODYGUARD WERE KILLED IN THE STREET IN FRONT OF THE MUNICIPAL HEADQUARTERS. REPORTEDLY HE AND THE BODY GUARD WERE SHOT IN THE FRONT WITH AN AEK 21 LMG, ONE OF WHICH WAS RECOVERED IN A NEARBY ALLEYWAY. FLASH CHECKPOINTS ARE BEING ESTABLISHED IN VORKUTA AND ALONG ALL ROADS LEADING THE CITY AND TRAIN LINES HAVE BEEN HALTED. THE SUSPECT IS A FEMALE WITH DARK HAIR AND A DARK GREEN JACKET.

 

Report Key: 5614

Tracking No.: KP-853697567

Reporting Unit: NOT PROVIDED

Unit Name: NOT PROVIDED

Originator Group: UNKNOWN

 

Date	Type	Category	Affiliation	Detained
08/29/71	Enemy Action	Direct Fire	Enemy	4

 

	Enemy	Friend	Civilian
Killed in Action	5	8	3
Wounded in Action	4	12	9

 

WHILE CONDUCTING ROOM-TO-ROOM SEARCHES AT THE PECHORA APARTMENT BUILDING IN EAST VORKUTA, S-TAK PULSE TEAM 44 CAME UNDER HEAVY FIRE FROM INSURG. AT THE SAME TIME, N.G. FORCES IN THE STREET WERE FIRED UPON BY AN ADVANCING INSURG. GROUP. THE TWO INSURG. GROUPS ENGAGED IN SWARM MANUEVERING AND MANAGED TO SPLIT THE PULSE TEAM IN HALF, SIGNIFICANTLY LOWERING THEIR OPERATIONAL CAPACITY. THE N.G. FORCES SUSTAINED HEAVY LOSSES. REPORTEDLY N.G. SUFFERED 5 LOSSES AND 7 INJURIES. THE PULSE TEAM SUFFERED 3 LOSSES AND 5 INJURIES. MULTIPLE CIVILIANS WERE CAUGHT IN THE CROSS-FIRE, LEADING TO 3 DEATHS AND 9 INSTANCES OF DAMAGE.

5 INSURGS WERE KILLED AND 4 WERE WOUNDED. THE SURVIVING INSURGENTS, PULSE TEAM MEMBERS, N.G. COMBATANTS AND CIVILIANS WERE EITHER TREATED AT THE VORKUTA REGIONAL HOSPITAL OR AIRLIFTED TO MOSCOW. THE SURVIVING INSURGENTS ARE FORMALLY UNDER ARREST.

 

Report Key: 5992

Tracking No.: KP-853697682

Reporting Unit: S-TAK 44

Unit Name: FORTY-FOUR/“FIREBRAND”

Originator Group: PULSE

 

Date	Type	Category	Affiliation	Detained
09/03/71	Friendly Action	Arrest	Friend	6

 

	Enemy	Friend	Civilian
Killed in Action	0	0	0
Wounded in Action	0	0	0

 

LX (1-F02) REPORTED THAT THEY DETAINED SIX INDIVIDUALS ([REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED]) CONNECTED WITH THE VORTUKA INCIDENT. LX WAS OPERATING OFF INFORMATION PROVIDED BY A CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT THAT THE SIX WERE HIDING IN THE MALYGINSKOYE ADMINISTRATIVE ZONE. NO INJURIES OR DAMAGES REPORTED.

 

Report Key: 6043

Tracking No.: KP-85389284

Reporting Unit: NOT PROVIDED

Unit Name: NOT PROVIDED

Originator Group: UKNOWN

 

Date	Type	Category	Affiliation	Detained
09/13/71	Friendly Action	Ambush	Friend	[unknown]

 

	Enemy	Friend	Civilian
Killed in Action	[unknown]	[unknown]	[unknown]
Wounded in Action	[unknown]	[unknown]	[unknown]

 

FINAL REPORT

 

WHO: Report from New Diligence LLC

WHEN: 090971, 091071

WHAT: Ambushes

 

HOW: New Diligence LLC executed five coordinated ambushes in the following locations:

YP 041 226 (Novoportovskoye)

YP 028 308 (Leningradskoye)

YP 012 762 (Bovanenkovskoye)

YP 024 355 (Leningradskoye)

YP 005 243 (Novoportoveskoye)

 

BDA:

UNKNOWN

 

S2 ASSESSMENT: PURPLE

XXXXX REPORTS THAT INSURG. AT YP 012 762 WERE MAINTAINING A SMALL-SCALE BOMB AND AMMUNITION FACTORY USING WHAT APPEARED TO BE GREENTSING MODULAR MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT FROM A NEARBY GAZPROM MACHINE SHOP. V.G. INTERROGATION OPERATIVES DISPATCHED TO ASSESS SHOP PERSONNEL. NDL SAYS THAT INVENTORY AT YP 012 762 WAS VERY LOW, INDICATING ARMAMENT DIFFUSION. RECOMMENDING INCREASED CODE COLOR STATUS.

 

Report Key: 12098

Tracking No.: KQ-542394238

Reporting Unit: NEW DILIGENCE LLC

Unit Name: MAESTRO

Originator Group: UKNOWN

 

Date	Type	Category	Affiliation	Detained
09/14/71	Explosive Hazard	Unknown Explosion	Enemy	0

 

	Enemy	Friend	Civilian
Killed in Action	0	[unknown]	0
Wounded in Action	0	[unknown]	0

 

AT 1903 HOUR THE SABETTA RAIL STATION MANAGER REPORTED INDICATIONS OF AN EXPLOSION ON THE OB BAY BRIDGE RAIL LINE. THE 6 BTG DIRECTED S-TAK 33 TO RECON THE BRIDGE FROM FOB KOLMOGROV TO THE 6 BTG BOUNDARY LINE. 1-422 IS CONFIRMING [CALL SIGN: “HORNET”] IS GOING TO THE SCENE OF THE ATTACK TO INVESTIGATE.

 

Report Key: 15929

Tracking No.: KQ-6246057

Reporting Unit: 6 BTG

Unit Name: UNKNOWN

Originator Group: UNKNOWN

 

 

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[1]     VARV response phase 4: a flexible framework for achieving and sustaining a resilient zero: http://who.int/csr/resources/publications/varv/varv-response-phase4/en.

[2]     See: http://who.int/csr/disease/varv/situation-reports/icv-reports/en.

 

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Edmund Berger is a writer and researcher with a focus on the intersections of technology, Marxist economics and cultural evolution. He is the author of Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present (2017) and Leaving This World Behind: A Subcultural History of the Late 20^th Century (forthcoming, 2019). Follow him on twitter @EBBerger.

Kevin Rogan is a former architect and current urbanist, artist and researcher investigating labour, technology, politics and the philosophy of space. He recently graduated with a degree in urban sociology from The New School with his thesis “Anti-intelligence: A Marxist critique of the smart city”. Follow him on twitter @kvnrogan or visit negativemetropolitics.info

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This text is featured in ŠUM#11: Hypersonic Hyperstitions published in conjunction with the exhibition Here we go again…SYSTEM317 by Marko Peljhan at Pavilion of Slovenia, Venice Biennale.