The Moscow City Court on October 27 sentenced Russian physicist Anatoly Gubanov to 12 years in a maximum-security penal colony for treason. The 66-year-old scientist, who worked at a Moscow institute, was arrested in December 2020 and accused of betraying classified information about Russia’s aviation industry. Gubanov was the latest Russian scientist to be charged with treason on suspicion of passing sensitive material to foreigners. His colleague, Valery Golubkin, also received a 12-year jail sentence for treason in June after being found guilty of handing over state secrets to “representatives of foreign organizations." To read the original story by RFE/RL's Russian Service, click here.
Russian Court Jails Physicist For 12 Years In Treason Case
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