The two made a visit to Ukraine in 2005 to establish funding for biological research laboratories. Mechnikov Antiplague Scientific and Research Institute, in the Black Sea port city of Odessa. ********Obama (in 2005 As Senator) and Soros funded Ukraine bio labs? The Mechnikov Anti-Plague Research Institute in Odessa, Ukraine is located at the spot of an old secretive Soviet biological weapons plant.”“The Institute is now under the banner of the Ukraine Ministry of Health. “The Mechnikov Anti-Plague Research Institute in Odessa, Ukraine is located at a former Soviet biological weapons plant.