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Alexander Kuranov
Incident date: April 18, 2024
Violation type: treason conviction
Institution: JSC Research Enterprise of Hypersonic Systems (NIPGS), part of the Leninetz holding company. (NIPGS is currently liquidated).
Summary: On April 18, 2024, the St. Petersburg City Court sentenced physicist Alexander Kuranov to seven years in a maximum security penal colony. 76-year-old Kuranov was found guilty of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). The trial was held behind closed doors, since the case is classified as “Top Secret,” Meduza reports.
Sources: Meduza, Kommersant.
Violation type: treason conviction
Institution: JSC Research Enterprise of Hypersonic Systems (NIPGS), part of the Leninetz holding company. (NIPGS is currently liquidated).
Summary: On April 18, 2024, the St. Petersburg City Court sentenced physicist Alexander Kuranov to seven years in a maximum security penal colony. 76-year-old Kuranov was found guilty of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). The trial was held behind closed doors, since the case is classified as “Top Secret,” Meduza reports.
Sources: Meduza, Kommersant.
Meta-detection of FSB.
How 900 pages of Sergei Abramov’s criminal case were born from $75 in a year
How 900 pages of Sergei Abramov’s criminal case were born from $75 in a year
The FSB completed investigative actions in the case of corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergei Abramov a year later: the materials were transferred to the court, which must set a date for the hearing. According to T-invariant, Abramov’s case involves seven donations of 1,000 rubles each. The scientist himself has repeatedly denied his guilt, including denying that he made these translations.
Personal resistance. Essay on the biography and scientific activity of Stepan Timoshenko
The eighth essay in the “Creators” series is dedicated to Stepan Timoshenko, one of the founders of modern applied mechanics. In the “Creators” project T-invariant in collaboration with RASA (Russian-American Science Association) continues to publish a series of biographical essays about people from the Russian Empire who made significant contributions to world science and technology.
Oleg Kabov
Date of incident: April 5, 2024
Type of violation: charge of especially large-scale fraud
Institution: Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS
Summary: On April 5, 2024, in Novosibirsk, a court began hearing the case of the head of the laboratory for intensification of heat transfer processes at the Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Oleg Kabov, accused of especially large-scale fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the maximum penalty is ten years’ imprisonment), Kommersant reports.
Sources: Kommersant, T-invarint.
Type of violation: charge of especially large-scale fraud
Institution: Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS
Summary: On April 5, 2024, in Novosibirsk, a court began hearing the case of the head of the laboratory for intensification of heat transfer processes at the Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Oleg Kabov, accused of especially large-scale fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the maximum penalty is ten years’ imprisonment), Kommersant reports.
Sources: Kommersant, T-invarint.