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Russia: physicist condemned for spying to China

Moscow, Russia - He supplied information over space artificial satellites

Valentin Danilov, former Chief of the astrophysics department of the University of "Krasnoiarsk" (central Siberia), is charged to have supplied to China in 1999, secret informations over the space artificial satellite's resistance: for that, the scientist was arrested in 2001 and served a year prison being remanded in custody. Last December, Danilov has been acquitted in the first process for spying...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 107077
Rome, Italy, 11/08/2004 15:29
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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