yup,the name Lubyanka comes to mind...
Posted on 06/22/2012 6:15:19 PM PDT by moonshot925
St. Petersburg City Court gave sentence to two professors of Baltic State Technical University (Voenmech) founded guilty of espionage for China. Yevgeny Afanasiev got 12.5 years of close confinement, and Svyatoslav Bobyshev – 12 years, reports Interfax.
According to a source in security agencies, the teachers were charged of providing China with secret information about submarine-based ballistic missile Bulava and its developer, Moscow Thermotechnics Institute. According to investigators, the accused persons being on working trip in China in May-June 2009 handed over classified information to Chinese intelligence service for pecuniary reward.
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Bingo.
We’ve given China enough. More than enough.
China doesn’t allow any competition.
Time to stop.
For real.
He sold the secret of the Tiny Tuning Fork to the Chi-Coms?
Why didn’t China just buy one and then send it back because it didn’t “meet specifications”? They have (our) money to spend...and it might have been cheaper!
It’s worrisome to read this, because IMO, the Russians have great technology and ideas, but they often lack the capability (or money) to implement them well and/or in quantity. Those are not problems for the Chinese.
12 years? Times have changed. I’ve always heard talk that in the cold war, such an offense would have resulted in a one way trip into a drab building, down into the basement and into a room notable only for a single lamp illuminating just one wall covered with pock marks and a drain cover on the floor. Once in this room, the person would be told to stand against the wall.
These wristwatch thieves have got to be stopped.
yup,the name Lubyanka comes to mind...
I thought they had sold them the secret to making really good caviar.
In fact Russian criminal law is extremely liberal.
If you are sentened for a single murder it is about 8 to 12 years (which is an improvement from late 80s to late 90s when 8 years was a standard term). And most offenders has paroles after half a sentence served.
They have people getting arrested for murdering a person in process of celebrating their early release after serving their third term for three earlier murders.
Maximal possible punishment is life in prison but it is extremely rarely used as well.
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