Valery Zvegintsev, Anatoly Maslov and Alexander Shiplyuk, Russian academics who worked on hypersonic missile technology in Siberia, all stand accused of treason. Under Russian law, people found guilty of sharing state secrets face up to 20 years in jail.
published on Monday, Russian scientists protested the academics’ arrest, claiming the incidents had spread fear and warning weapons research could “collapse” as a result.
Valery Zvegintsev, Anatoly Maslov and Alexander Shiplyuk — all employees of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Siberian branch in Novosibirsk — all stand accused of treason. The cases have been shrouded in secrecy with sparse details about the nature of their cases. Under Russian law, people found guilty of sharing state secrets face up to 20 years in jail.
News of Zvegintsev’s arrest were first made public in the open letter. Russian state newswire Tass has since reported that Zvegintsev was detained last month and is under house arrest. Zvegintsev, who has published more than 300 scientific papers, was arrested in connection with an article he wrote on gas dynamics in an Iranian journal, according to Tass.A fourth colleague at another research institute in Novosibirsk, Dmitry Kolker, was also arrested in July on suspicion of treason last summer.
Since the beginning of this year, Russia has seen an uptick in treason cases. Historically, such cases have typically involved military figures or scientists who were investigated over the course of years, and kept top secret. But in recent months, ordinary citizens have been charged, many in connection to Ukraine.
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