Anatoly Maslov, a Russian physicist, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his alleged involvement in researching super-high flight speeds, officials say.
Russia has brought a string of treason cases against scientists researching super-high flight speeds, an area that underpins its development of hypersonic missiles. In the latest, physicist Anatoly Maslov was sentenced to 14 years on Tuesday. President Vladimir Putin has boasted of Russia's prowess in hypersonic missiles and Moscow has acknowledged using them in the Ukraine war.
All three were top scientists at the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Maslov and Shiplyuk were arrested in 2022, and Zvegintsev the following year. In a rare open letter a year ago, colleagues said the three men were innocent and the cases against them were damaging Russian science.
Kuranov was handed a seven-year jail sentence for treason last month, after being accused of passing state secrets to foreign nationals. Maslov's lawyer, without naming Kuranov, said the case against Maslov had been based on testimony against him from another person who got a seven-year term.
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