INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The head of a research institute that supplies communication systems to the Russian military set himself ablaze on Red Square Friday, media
outlets reported, citing anonymous sources.Mash, a Telegram news channel with purported links to Russian law enforcement,said eyewitnesses
Arsenyev, president of the Volna Central Research Institute, which develops communication systems for Russian warships, aviation and
Arsenyev previously filed a defamation lawsuit over accusations by the state defense and industrial conglomerate Rostec that Volna had
broken state contracts.A Federal Security Service (FSB) investigation did not turn up any wrongdoing at Volna, Moskovsky Komsomolets wrote
work, but then said he would step out
was an act of protest or self-harm.
