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Russia Imprisons Top Scientists

September 8, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/world/europe/russia-imprisons-top-scientists.html ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Russia

UPDATE: Russian court orders retrial of Valery Golubkin

April 20, 2024

Valery Golubkin, a prominent Russian physicist specializing in aerodynamics, was arrested in 2021 on charges of treason and sentenced to twelve years in a penal colony for allegedly communicating hypersonic-related secrets to the West. On Wednesday, the Russian court annulled the treason verdict and ordered a ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Russia Tagged With: Valery Golubkin

Russian sociologist imprisoned for criticizing the Russian government

February 20, 2024

Boris Kagarlitsky, noted sociologist in Russia, was recently sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony for half a decade, allegedly for justifying “terrorism” via an online video. In the video, Kagarlitsky commented on the 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion. It appears he has been punished for criticizing government ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Russia Tagged With: Boris Kagarlitsky

Two Prominent Russian Scientists Unfairly Sentenced to Penal Colony

November 14, 2023

Professors Valery Golbukin and Anatoly Gubanov were arrested, charged with high treason, and sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony for allegedly communicating hypersonic-related secrets to the ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Russia Tagged With: natoly Gubanov, Valery Golubkin

Russia decimates its last bastion of human rights

August 26, 2023

from the archive of Boris Altshuler https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/russia-decimates-its-last-bastion-of-human-rights https://www.rightsinrussia.org/altshuler-18/ ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Russia

Letter of the Azat Miftakhov Committee to the director of the correctional colony 17 at Omutninsk

July 27, 2023

https://caseazatmiftakhov.org/2023/07/25/letter-of-the-azat-miftakhov-committee-to-the-director-of-the-correctional-colony-17-at-omutninsk/ ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Russia Tagged With: Azat Miftakhov, Miftakhov

Russian Mathematics PhD student remains in prison and is likely to face new charges

March 14, 2023

Mathematics PhD student Azat Miftakhov has been in prison since February 2019 for alleged manufacture of explosives, breaking a political party window, and hooliganism. These charges appear to be based on unreliable testimony. He has been subjected to torture. The government appears to be preparing additional charges to keep him in prison even ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Russia Tagged With: Azat Miftakhov, Miftakhov

Court shuts down Russia’s oldest human rights organization

February 14, 2023

Court shuts down Russia’s oldest human rights organization founded in 1976 by the most prominent Soviet political dissidents including physicists Andrei Sakharov and Yuri Orlov. Click here to read the article in the Washington Examiner ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Russia

CCS speaks against academic boycott of Russia and Belarus.

March 14, 2022

... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Belarus, Russia Tagged With: Boycott

An open letter from Russian scientists and science journalists against the war with Ukraine

February 24, 2022

We, Russian scientists and scientific journalists, declare our strong protest of the hostilities launched by the armed forces of our country against the territory of Ukraine. This fatal step has led to huge human losses and undermined the foundations of the established system of international security. The responsibility for unleashing this new war in Europe lies entirely with Russia. There is no ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Russia, Ukraine

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