INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Moscow court sentenced leading Russian hypersonic flight scientist Alexander Shiplyuk to 15 years in a maximum-security prison on charges
Mechanics and was one of three institute members arrested between 2022 and 2023 on suspicion of treason
City Court found him guilty of treason and handed down a 15-year prison sentence
Anatoly Maslov, was also convicted of treason in May and jailed for 14 years
Alexander Kuranov, who headed a St
Petersburg-based research institute, received a seven-year sentence in April.Kuranov reportedly secured a more lenient sentence by
testifying against Maslov
sensitive nature of the case, with prosecutors initially seeking a 20-year sentence.Russia has ramped up treason convictions since its
annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022
Vladimir Putin touted a new generation of weapons in 2018.
