Activists hold a rally against the repression of Russia's scientists Igor Sutyagin, Valentina Danilova and Oskar Kaibyshev. A poster reads: "Patrushev, Catch Militants, Not Scientists!"
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Novosibirsk Scientist Brought to Justice for Ties with Pentagon
Novosibirsk investigators completed the probe into the case of Oleg Korobeinichev, the scientist accused of disclosing state secrets to Pentagon. The files were passed to the court, the FSB officials said.
The case brought in against scientist Oleg Korobeinichev has been passed to the court, Gen.-Lt. Sergey Savchenkov, chief of FSB’s Novosibirsk Regional Department, said yesterday. The scientist had transferred to the research center of Pentagon the information about new developments of solid propellant, general-lieutenant of counterintelligence specified.
Deputy Chief of Combustion Kinetics Laboratory at the Chemical Kinetics and Combustion Institute of Siberian Branch of Russia’s Science Academy, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics Oleg Korobeinichev faced the secret disclosing charges far back in March of this year. Korobeinichev is said to have disclosed the solid propellant secrets in one of the articles written by order the United States.
The institute of Korobeinichev conducts no secret research and the most interesting results could be found in scientific articles, said a source with research community of Novosibirsk on condition of anonymity. Defense experts of Biisk Altai Research and Production Center studied the results of joint research with Pentagon. The conclusion of experts was the absence of secret data, and the chiefs of Korobeinichev’s institute have received this conclusion already, the source specified.
Oleg Korobeinichev declined to comment on the progress in investigation yesterday.
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