NARRATIVE – Over the past six years, a dozen physicists working in fields related to the development of hypersonic missiles have been arrested.
Correspondent in Moscow
“Grandpa is on a business trip» : this is what Tatiana tells her grandchildren to explain the disappearance of her husband, with whom they loved to play chess. In April 2023, at 4 a.m., men dressed in black and masked belonging to to the FSB, the Russian security servicesburst into the home of Vladislav Galkin in Tomsk, Siberia. The 68-year-old academic is a specialist in hypersonic technology, which is used in Vladimir Putin’s supermissile program. According to a relative, quoted by the BBC, his apartment was searched from top to bottom and documents containing mathematical formulas were seized.
Shortly after his arrest, Galkin was brought before the court, along with another scientist arrested in spring 2023, Valery Zvegintsev., 79 years old, aerodynamics specialist at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Itam) in Novosibirsk…
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