Russia in Review - Harvard Tuesday July 28th, 2015 at 1:24 PM
Russian Scientist Faces High Treason Charge Tuesday July 28 th , 2015 at 1:45 PM Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 1 Share A 75-year-old employee of a research branch of Russia's Space Agency (Roskosmos) has been placed under house arrest on suspicion of passing classified data to a foreign state. The press service of Moscow's Lefortovo district court announced on July 28 that Vladimir Lapygin faces charges of high treason in connection with an investigation that has been ongoing since May, and will be under house arrest until September 13. Few details regarding the case, which has been categorized by the court as classified, have emerged. Lapygin's case is one of several in recent years in which academics have been accused of disseminating sensitive information. In April, officials in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod arrested a 66-year-old nuclear physicist, Vladimir Golubev, for allegedly divulging classified material during a