MOSCOW, October 7 (RAPSI) – Moscow’s Lefortovsky District Court has extended detention of CEO and Chief Structural Engineer of the Scientific Research Institute of Hypersonic Alexander Kuranov, who stands charged with treason, until December 11, the court’s press service has told RAPSI.

Kuranov was arrested in August. 

The scientist is working at physics and plasma chemistry. He is the author of more than 120 research papers.