64-year-old scientist allegedly gave secret tech
information to Vietnamese nationals; attorney says this was public data, not
classified.
July 31, 2018
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The second report of a Russian scientist being charged
with state treason came out Monday.
The Moscow Times reported the following:
A second Russian scientist has reportedly been charged
with sharing state secrets with another country this month, a week after the
high-profile detention of a space researcher on treason charges.
Last week, Viktor Kudryavtsev, a scientist at one of
Russia’s leading space research labs, was charged with state treason for a
suspected leak of hypersonic missile technology to a NATO country in 2013.
A member of the Public Monitoring Committee (PMC)
prison watchdog said last Friday that a second scientist was found
to have been detained on treason charges in July, despite prison wards
having previously assured observers that only one scientist was being held.
Alexei Temiryov, 64, was detained on July 18 and
placed under arrest for allegedly leaking secret documentation to Vietnam, his lawyer, Anna Polozova, was quoted as saying by the RBC news website Sunday.
His lawyer said that the information her client is
accused of leaking was not classified.
“All of it is in the public record, it’s in every
textbook in every library,” she told RBC.
The English language article says very little about
this, but the other prominent Russian news agencies – Sputnik, RT and TASS say
nothing about the second scientist’s situation at all at the present time.
It should further be noted that the
Moscow Times is really a Western news site, and although it is fairly popular among
English-speaking Russians, it offers an editorial “slant” that is distinctly
critical of the Russian government and presumably the state owned media outlets
listed earlier.
Photo of
Alexei Petrovich Temerov, reportedly being held on charges of treason in
Lefortovo Prison
With that point in view, this piece did make reference
to two other
news-pieces in the Russian language we we offer here in translation.