Source: US News & World Report
“A Russian court sentenced physicist Alexander Shiplyuk to 15 years on treason charges on Tuesday in the latest of several cases against experts working on the science underpinning Russia’s development of hypersonic missiles. Shiplyuk, the 57-year-old director of a top Siberian science institute, was arrested in August 2022. Two of his colleagues, Anatoly Maslov and Valery Zvegintsev, were also detained on suspicion of treason. Maslov, 78, was handed a 14-year sentence in May. … Two people familiar with Shiplyuk’s case told Reuters last May that the ITAM director was suspected of handing over classified material at a scientific conference in China in 2017.” (09/03/24)