The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO calls to release
St.Petersburg scientists Eugeni Afanasyev and Svyatoslav Bobyshev.
Considering the “practices” of work of the Federal Security
Bureau in the recent years we have all the grounds to state
that the accusations set against the scientists in their alleged
transfer of state secrets to China are groundless.
Any investigation that the law enforcement consider necessary
can be performed without bringing the scientists in custody.
We consider such measure of restraint as excessive and demonstratively
repressive by nature.
We realise that the state security bodies may have questions
to the scientists from the military complex who had intensive
contacts with foreign colleagues.
However, determination to take such scientists as spies and
filing criminal cases on a smallest suspicion and imprisoning
them in the Lefortovo prison means brining real harm to Russia’s
security.
The development of modern science and high tech economics
is incompatible with spymania and totalitarian standards of
pathological “secrecy” regimes. On the opposite, such conditions
inevitable lead to stagnation in science and research, and
continued and increased “brain drain”.
All this is absolutely incompatible with the task of Russia’s
modernisaiton set by President Medvedev.
We demand from the Federal Security Bureau to stop their
discreditation of presidential policies.
Sergei Mitrokhin
Chairman of the YABLOKO party
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