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2025: Director of the Research Institute Rustam Kaibyshev received 2.5 years in prison for fraud
Rustam Kaibyshev, director of the Research Institute of Materials Science and Innovative Technologies of the Belgorod State National Research University, was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison in a general regime correctional colony for fraud on an especially large scale. The Sverdlovsk District Court of the Belgorod Region found the 62-year-old scientist guilty of embezzling ₽14 million from the federal budget. The press service of the regional department of the FSB announced this on July 17, 2025. Read more here.
