Scientist from Tomsk Polytechnic University (Siberia), Vladislav Galkin, a specialist in the industry indirectly related to hypersonic weapons, was arrested for treason according to the portal T-invariant

Galkin was detained by the Federal Security Service (FSB) and arrested by decision of the Novosibirsk courtthe main city of Siberia, under Article 275 of the Criminal Code.

The detainee is a co-author of several articles together with the head of the Novosibirsk Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Valery Zvegintsev.and was also arrested for the same reason in April 2023.

T-invariant condemning the campaign against all scientists who work on issues related to hypersound, He assures that they, mostly elderly people, are “easy prey” for the FSB, since during the investigation they offered virtually no resistance.

“Without a doubt, all these cases associated with hypersound (…) (President Vladimir) Putin several years ago ordered the protection of Russia’s most advanced hypersonic technologies. And the security officers put this into practice,” says Ivan Pavlov, head of the human rights organization “Piervi Otdel” (First Department).

The results of their research were used to develop hypersonic missiles “Dagger”, “Sarmat”, “Avangard” and “Zircon”, According to Putin, it is capable of bypassing the US missile defense shield.

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In total, in the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, famous for its specialists in the field of physics and mathematics, 16 people were arrested.

One of them, Dmitry Kolker, 54 years old, quantum optics specialist, He died in a pre-trial detention center in Moscow shortly after his arrest by FSB agents, as he suffered from an incurable form of cancer.

The Kremlin assured that charges have been brought against Siberian scientists They are “very serious” after receiving an open letter in which his colleagues condemned the persecution of the scientific community.

“We know each of them as patriots and honest people. unable to do what they are suspected of for investigative authorities,” the letter notes.

The witch hunt unleashed by the security forces among the Russian scientific community in order to prevent the leakage of state secrets has intensified since presentation of new Russian hypersonic weapons in 2018but increased sharply with the outbreak of war in Ukraine in February 2022.

(EFE)