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Russia jails scientist for spying

BBC News

Valentin Danilov says other scientists could face charges

A Russian physicist convicted of spying for China has been jailed for 14 years by a court in Siberia.

Valentin Danilov was cleared in 2003 of passing space secrets to China, but the result was later overturned.

Mr Danilov, 53, has always maintained that information he sold to China was already publicly available.

He is one of several Russian academics and journalists prosecuted by the internal security services, the FSB, on espionage charges.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4037839.stm

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