Russian Scientist Still Imprisoned for Assisting Two Iranians Obtain Publically Available Equipment
Scientist Arrested for High Treason for Unclassified Work When Project Was Done
Yuri Fyodorovich 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>>
President of the Arctic Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia Charged with High Treason
CCS Expresses Concern About Harassment of Scientists Working on COVID-19
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>>
Russian Doctor Harassed for Distributing Needed PPE’s to Medical Professionals and For Her Observations Regarding Handling of COVID-19 Treatment
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>>
Russian Historian Confined For Uncovering Evidence of Killings by The Secret Police Under Stalin
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>>
Renowned Russian Scientist Released from Prison With Advanced Stage Cancer
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>>
Russian Academics Have Written In Support of Jailed Rocket Scientists Accused of Treason
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>>