The Moscow Times reports that Russia’s Ministry of Health has pressed research institutes to provide immediate updates on their efforts to combat aging, cognitive decline, and osteoporosis, as well as to strengthen the immune system.
“We were asked to urgently send all of our developments, and the letter arrived, let’s say, today, but everything had to be sent yesterday,” one researcher told Meduza.
The urgency is reportedly driven by Mikhail Kovalchuk, a 77-year-old scientist and close friend of Putin. Kovalchuk, who heads the Kurchatov Nuclear Research Institute and has ties to a state-funded genetics program that includes Putin’s eldest daughter, endocrinologist Maria Vorontsova, is said to be leading the push for life-extension research.
“The big boss set the task, and officials rushed to implement it in every possible way,” according to a Kremlin insider.
Kovalchuk is described as being “obsessed with eternal life.”
He reportedly pitched the idea to Putin.
Eating glass helps, I hear
Drinking mercury helps, I hear
Hey, you said you wanted to pivot towards China. What better way than to adopt the Chinese Emperor diet?
90% emperors cut funding to immortality elixir research just before breakthrough
Truth is, they have to be large pieces and taken as a suppository.
I’m pretty sure I saw a video of this that scarred me as a child
I can still see it clear as day right now. Only watched it once ~15 years ago but that was enough to burn it into my retinas.