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Topic: Roscosmos spokesman Ivan Safronov arrested
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fredtrav Member Posts: 1690 From: Birmingham AL Registered: Aug 2010
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posted 07-07-2020 09:09 AM
Ivan Safronov was arrested by the FSB for treason, though it is reported not for his work with Roscosmos. Roscosmos said in a statement (in Russian) that former journalist Ivan Safronov's arrest was not linked to his current job there.Russia's FSB security service said he was suspected of espionage for a NATO country, RIA news agency said. ...Safronov joined Roscosmos as information adviser to director general Dmitry Rogozin in the middle of May. The space agency said it was helping investigators with their inquiries. |
dom Member Posts: 883 From: Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 07-07-2020 12:59 PM
He's lucky he didn't get the same treatment as his journalist father... Ivan Ivanovich Safronov (16 January 1956 – 2 March 2007) was a Russian journalist and columnist who covered military affairs for the daily newspaper Kommersant. He died after falling from the fifth floor of his Moscow apartment building. His apartment was on the third floor. There are speculations that he may have been killed for his critical reporting: the Taganka District prosecutor's office in Moscow initiated a criminal investigation into Safronov's death, and in September 2007, officially ruled his death a suicide. | |
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