First Russian hypersonic missile scientist to go on trial for treason next week

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, May 24 (Reuters) – The first of three Russian hypersonic missile scientists to be arrested on suspicion of treason will go on trial next week, the court handling the case said on Wednesday. The criminal case against Anatoly Maslov, 76, will open in St Petersburg’s city court on June 1, the court said on its website. He and two colleagues at the same Siberian institute, the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ITAM), have all been arrested on suspicion of treason in the past year. All three are specialists in hypersonics – a field of key…