Russian Professor of Aerodynamics Detained for Sharing Unclassified Data
Valeriy Golubkin ... Continue Reading>>
Scientist Held on Seemingly Spurious Charges Ordered by Court to Cease Use of His Attorney for Court Appointed One
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>>