When The Party's Over... - Strachunsky Died after being hit on the head with a champagne bottle. Strachunsky specialized in creating microbes resistant to biological weapons. Investigators are looking for a connection between the murder of this leading bio weapons researcher and the hepatitis outbreak in Tver, Russia. Strachunsky was found dead in his hotel room in Moscow, where hed come from Smolensk en route to the United States.