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Police officers detain a protester during a rally to support Ivan Safronov near the Lefortovo prison in Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 13, 2020. Safronov, an ex-journalist who worked as an adviser to the director of Russia's state space corporation has been arrested and jailed on charges of passing military secrets to Czech intelligence. Ivan Safronov wrote about military and security issues before becoming an adviser to the head of Roscosmos. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Moscow police detain people protesting ex-reporter’s jailing

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Police officers detain Yelena Chernenko, a Kommersant journalist who worked with Ivan Safronov for years, with a poster reading 'We demand justice and openness in the trial of Ivan Safonov' during a picket to protest his arrest near the building of the Federal Security Service (FSB, Soviet KGB successor) in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Safronov, an adviser to the director of Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos, has been detained on treason charges by the nation's top security agency. (AP Photo/Denis Kaminev)

Russian space official, ex-journalist, charged with treason

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press