Laser physicist Dmitry Kolker died this month after being accused of divulging Russian state secrets.
Last month, Dmitry Kolker, 54, director of the Laboratory of Quantum Optics at Novosibirsk State University, was dealing with late-stage pancreatic cancer. But on 30 Junе, agents with Russia’s Federal Security Service removed him from a cancer clinic, flew him to Moscow, and detained him on charges of treason. By 2 July, he was dead. His family learned of his fate via a curt telegram.
Eugene Chudnovsky, a physicist at Lehman College and co-chair of the Committee of Concerned Scientists, believes the prosecutions may also be “an intimidation tactic” directed at scientists more deeply involved in sensitive research, which the Russian government is careful not to disrupt too much. The post-Soviet security services are still driven by performance quotas, but they are also “populated by officials who are trying to build their careers or make money through the cases they pursue,” says Brian Taylor, a political scientist at Syracuse University who studies FSB.
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