A trio of Vladimir Putin’s leading hypersonic scientists have been detained on suspicion of high treason in what fellow scientists have declared a ‘witch hunt’ Aerodynamics specialist Dr Valery Zvegintsev, 78, is the latest of three prominent scientists from the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Novosibirsk to be arrested on extremely serious charges. Zvegintsev,... 

In Novosibirsk, 27-year-old Tajik Khushnud Khamroev stabbed a 16-year-old girl out of jealousy. He stabbed her 14 times and fled the scene. He was detained 28 kilometers from the crime scene and is being interrogated. Previously, he had already been tried for causing bodily harm and threatening to kill (there is infa that the same girl). The criminal was arrested July 28 Sovetsky District Court of... 

A leading Russian hypersonic missile expert has been detained on suspicion of high treason. Professor Alexander Shiplyuk, 55, was held in a swoop by the FSB counter-intelligence agency in Novosibirsk, Siberia where he heads the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. The respected academic is the latest to be held in a wave of arrests of leading researchers on suspicion of handing secrets... 

A new, super-stealthy variant of Russia’s recently developed heavy combat drone, which is equipped with advanced anti-detection capabilities, has been unveiled for the first time and will undertake its maiden flight soon. The modified Sukhoi S-70, known as the “Okhotnik” or “Hunter,” was presented to the world on Tuesday in the city of Novosibirsk, in southern Siberia.... 

A major emergency was declared In Russia after a top secret research lab blew up. One of the world’s largest virus research facilities, located in Siberia has blown up releasing strains of HIV, Ebola, Anthrax, Smallpox and God knows what other viruses into the air. Firefighters and rescue services were scrambled on Monday to respond to a fire that broke out in Koltsovo, a scientific hub several... 

Novosibirsk lawyer Anton Tikhonov wrote a letter to developers of popular computer game DotA Dota2. The lawyer is convinced that the game should be banned for children under 18 years of age. According to the activist, the game does not ask for the user’s age, which violates the law of the Russian Federation “On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development.” “The... 

Having closed several McDonald’s restaurants in Moscow, Russia’s Federal Service for Consumer Rights Protection (Rospotrebnadzor) launched unscheduled inspections of the restaurants of the chain in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia. According to representative of the agency, their actions are connected to complaints from local residents about the quality of products sold and insanitary conditions. On... 

In Siberia, rescuers continue to search for three tourists, who did not come out of a cave in due time. The rescuers of the Russian Emergencies Ministry have started searching for the tourists in Pandora’s Box Cave, Vesti reports. According to NTV, the owner of a tourist facility in the village of Malaya Syya told EMERCOM that three young men were supposed to return to the base in the morning,...