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From: eldar@lomi.spb.su (Eldar A. Musaev)
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Subject: Viruses in the USSR (PC)
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Date: 6 May 91 06:11:31 GMT
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By the information of the moscow AV researcher and developer of the
AIDSTST (one of the soviet analogs of SCAN) Dmitry N.Lozinsky there
are approx.  130 viruses in the USSR, including rare, very rare and
exotic.  Again, only 20-30 of them are really active.

Newly published book of Kiev AV researcher Nikolai N.Bezrukov contains
references to approx. 10-15 soviet viruses (Voronezh group, Hymn
group), though Lozinsky state that there are much more ones now and
the wave of the soviet viruses is coming after the wave of the
Bulgarian ones.  I could not confirm or deny these data - I've seen
only three ones, and it seems to be so that there are no more in
Leningrad this time.

Eldar A.Musaev, researcher, Ph.D.			 eldar@lomi.spb.su
Mathematical Instituite of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, USSR