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Scientist Arrested for High Treason for Unclassified Work When Project Was Done

December 24, 2020

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Filed Under: Russia Tagged With: Anatoly Gubanov, Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute, Gubanov, Hypersonic Flight, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Physics, Professor, Russia

Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov

November 9, 2020

Yuri Orlov

a physicist, Soviet dissident, and human rights activist who co-founded the Moscow Helsinki Group and established a section of Amnesty International in the Soviet Union, passed away on September 27, 2020 at the age of 96. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/world/europe/yuri-orlov-dead.html ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Highlights, Russia Tagged With: Amnesty International, human rights activist, Moscow Helsinki Group, Orlov, Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov

President of the Arctic Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia Charged with High Treason

July 18, 2020

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Filed Under: Annual Reports, CCS Board, CCS Cases, Highlights, Prominent Cases, Reports, Russia Tagged With: Arctic Academy of Sciences, Mitko, Russia, Scientist, treason, Valery Mitko

CCS Expresses Concern About Harassment of Scientists Working on COVID-19

July 7, 2020

The Committee of Concerned Scientists is an independent organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars that has been working, since 1972, on the advancement of human rights and scientific freedom for our colleagues all over the world. At this time of great international effort on the containment of COVID-19, we are concerned with the politicization of the response to the pandemic ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Brazil, China, Iran, Russia, United States Tagged With: Brazil, China, COVID-19, doctors, Egypt, harassment, Iran, Russia, United States

Russian Doctor Harassed for Distributing Needed PPE’s to Medical Professionals and For Her Observations Regarding Handling of COVID-19 Treatment

June 23, 2020

Dr. Anastasia Vasilyeva, a Russian Ophthalmologist and founder of the Alliance of Doctors, a medical trade union, observed that care for patients with Covid-19 was not adequate, nor was the equipment available to healthcare professionals trying to provide the care. She began obtaining and distributing the needed equipment to healthcare providers. On April 2 she was arrested and detained overnight ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Petitions, Russia Tagged With: Anastasia Vasilyeva, COVID-19, Dorctor, healthcare professionals, Russian

Russian Historian Confined For Uncovering Evidence of Killings by The Secret Police Under Stalin

June 12, 2020

Yuri Dmitriev, an amateur but determined historian, discovered graves containing the remains of political prisoners executed by Stalin’s secret police in a forest at Sandarmokh in Karelia, a peninsula in northern Russia. Dmitriev had been seeking proof for years of Stalin’s victims. In an effort to invalidate Dmitrriev’s work, he was arrested and charged with pedophilia - a charge that is often ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Russia Tagged With: Civil Rights, historian, Yuri Alexeyevich Dmitriev

Renowned Russian Scientist Released from Prison With Advanced Stage Cancer

October 4, 2019

CCS suggests possible violation of Magnitsky Act in regard to the case of Victor Kudryavtsev, a renowned rocket scientist in Russia’s aerospace program. He was arrested and held in pre-trial detention as a spy but was recently released from prison in Russia when it was found that he had advanced stage lung cancer. Although the prosecution found no evidence of any crime committed by Kudryavtsev, ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Russia Tagged With: aerospace, arrested, cancer, Kudryavtsev, pre-trial, released, rocket scientist, spy, Victor, Victor Kudryavtsev

Russian Academics Have Written In Support of Jailed Rocket Scientists Accused of Treason

July 4, 2019

Letter from Members of Russian Academy of Sciences in Support of Victor Kudryavtsev (Russian version at http://1julyclub.org/node/318) Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) belonging to the Club “July 1” [established in 2013 to resist re-organization of the Academy by Russian government] are expressing great concern about the prolonged jailing of Russian scientist Victor Victorovich ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Russia

Russia Jails Prominent Rocket Scientists

July 1, 2019

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/russia-imprisons-leading-rocket-scientists-over-leak-paranoia (Washington Examiner, June 17, 2019 by Dr. Eugene Chudnovsky, Co-Chair, Committee of Concerned Scientists, Inc. and distinguished professor at the City University of New York ) ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Russia Tagged With: arrested, Kudryavtsev, Scientist, spying, treason, Victor, Victor Kudryavtsev

Canada to Deport Russian Scientist Requesting Asylum – Consequences If Returned to Russia Can Be Severe

November 14, 2018

Elena Musikhina, a Russian scientist and professor at Irkutsk State Technical University and her husband fled to Canada after being informed by her vice rector that authorities in Russia were planning to accuse her of criminal activities due to her studies, writings and political activities. Musikhina was studying consequences and effects of industrial and military activities in Siberia around ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Russia Tagged With: Elena, Elena Musikhina, Musikhina, Scientist

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