Russian scientists get 12 years for selling missile secrets to China

The Russian Supreme Court has upheld the ruling against two professors from the Baltic State Technical University (Voenmekh) who were sentenced to 12.5 and 12 years respectively for passing classified information about the Bulava missile to Chinese secret services, the Prosecutor General's Office reported on Tuesday.

The St. Petersburg City Court sentenced Voenmekh professors Yevgeny Afanasyev and Svyatoslav Bobyshev in the summer of 2012. According to investigators, the two scholars provided Chinese military intelligence service with state secrets while on a business trip to China in 2009.

The information included the specifications of the Bulava sea-based ballistic missile and could be used to track Russian submarines.

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