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Russian missile scientist arrested, charged with treason

A scientist who worked on the creation of "hypersonic rocket systems" has been detained and accused of treason. The pre-trial prison facility in Moscow, Lefortovo, has received Alexander Shiplyuk, who was arrested in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. The scientist was the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics' director at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian branch.

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