June 25, 2004
Russian Physicist's Acquittal Overturned
Russia's Supreme Court has overturned the acquittal of a physicist accused of spying, a ruling that observers say was preordained and signals that scientists in Russia remain all but powerless against the influence of the government's security services.
The high court found that a lawyer for Valentin Danilov, former head of the Institute of Thermodynamics at Krasnoyarsk State Technical University, in central Siberia, had improperly influenced the jury that found him not guilty last
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