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Russia Holds Space Agency Aide, Ex Journalist on High Treason Charge

RFE/RL's Russian Service

   MOSCOW - An adviser to the chief of Russia's Roskosmos state space
   agency, Ivan Safronov Jr., has been detained on a charge of high
   treason.
   Roskosmos's press service said that Safronov, who is also a former
   noted journalist, was detained on July 7 and added that the high
   treason charge he faces is not related to his position at the space
   agency.
   The RIA news agency quoted the FSB Security Service as saying that
   Safronov worked for the foreign intelligence service of an unspecified
   NATO country and had been handing over classified military information.

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