MOSCOW. Sept 3 (Interfax) - The Moscow City Court has sentenced Alexander Shiplyuk, a physicist and director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian branch and Russian Academy of Sciences corresponding member, to 15 years in a high-security penitentiary on treason counts, an Interfax correspondent reported.
"Shiplyuk is sentenced to 15 years in a high-security penal colony and one year and six months of restriction on his freedom," Judge Alexander Rybak said in his ruling on Tuesday.
In addition, Shiplyuk was fined 500,000 rubles.