The St. Petersburg City Court has received materials from the treason case against 76-year-old physicist Anatoly Maslov. Information about this «Mediazona» found in the file of the court. The meetings have not yet been scheduled.
Maslov was a chief researcher at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, located in Novosibirsk. His main area of work was aerogasdynamics.
The scientist was detained in July 2022. According to the publication Academ.info about the life of the Novosibirsk Academgorodok, he was accused of transferring data related to hypersound to China.
Maslov was soon transferred to the Lefortovo detention center in Moscow, the last time he was extended his arrest in Moscow in February 2023. The scientist's son talked about his father's heart problems and the lack of «proper medical care» in custody.
In the summer of 2022, 54-year-old scientist Dmitry Kolker was arrested on charges of treason in Novosibirsk when he was in a private clinic with the last stage of pancreatic cancer. A few days after being transferred to Lefortovo, the head of the laboratory of quantum optical technologies of Novosibirsk State University died.
Shortly after Maslov, also in the case of treason, the director of his Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 56-year-old Alexander Shiplyuk, was arrested . It is contained in Lefortovo.