The Stockholm court extended until March 16 the term of detention of the Russian scientist Zamyatnin accused of espionage

In Stockholm on Thursday, the first court session was held in the case of the Russian biologist Andrei Zamyatnin, detained by the Swedish authorities on suspicion of espionage.

According to ITAR-TASS, the lawyer of Ula Salomonson, Andrei brought Andrei to the hall of the Stockholm District Court in handcuffs.

The court extended the detention of Andrei Zamyatnin until March 16. “The prosecutor asked for extra time for the investigation, and my client will spend two more weeks in the investigative insulator - until March 16. He is still suspected of espionage. Nevertheless, I have the opportunity to meet with his client without any obstacles,” the Russian scientist’s lawyer said on the air of the First Channel.

Meanwhile, Andrei Zamyatnin’s father said on Thursday that the Swedish authorities have seriously reduced the level of insulation of his son. “He was greatly reduced the level of isolation, there is access to the media,” the doctor of sciences, professor, chief researcher at the Institute of Biochemistry named after A.N. BAKH Alexander Zamyatyatnin. He added that where his son is contained, there is a good library and books will help his son cope with the situation.

Alexander Zamyatnin noted that he and his wife and his wife receive information about the maintenance of his son in Sweden through the Russian consul in this country. “I am sure that if the Swedish justice is independent, then they will let him go,” said Alexander Zamyatnin, noting that on March 3, the term of detention of his son expires. In his opinion, the Swedish authorities "could do this before."

The scientist called the absurdity of his son in Sweden absurd. "My son is a scientist of pure water, and to suspect him of involvement in the special services is simply absurd," said Alexander Zamyatnin. “It remains to find out who started it,” he added.

In turn, the mother of Andrei Zamyatnin Tatyana informed reporters that her son "feels good." “I feel sorry that his work is interrupted,” she said.

As previously reported, Andrei Zamyatyatnin worked under a contract in the genetics laboratory at the agricultural university of the Swedish city of Uppsala. He was detained by the police on February 15 on suspicion of espionage, and is currently in custody. According to the Swedish side, the researcher's activity “caused damage to the Swedish armed forces” and was reflected in the security of the country from January of the last to February of this year.

According to Andrei's father, on February 23, his son was allowed to call home. “Andrei’s mother picked up the phone, and his first question was:“ Do you know what happened to me? ” - I realized that he was kept in full isolation, and the employees of our embassy were not allowed to immediately,” said Alexander Zamyatyatnin.

He emphasized that the incident with Andrei inflicted "wild moral damage to both him and his relatives." "Andrei is a man completely absorbed in scientific work, spent day and night in the laboratory," said Alexander Zamyatnin. He noted that at the end of last year his son received a 4-year Swedish grant in the amount of 200 thousand dollars a year for scientific papers.

According to the Swedish laws, in the event that Andrei Zamyatnin’s innocence is recognized, he will receive financial compensation, said the Swedish Embassy Advisor in Russia Lars-Gunnar Vigemark.

"There is a system in Sweden: if someone was convicted and found guilty and then innocent, then this person receives financial compensation," Vigemark said on Thursday at a meeting with students of the Russian State Humanitarian University. At the same time, he emphasized that he does not comment on a specific situation with the detention of Zamyatnin, but the legislative practice of Sweden in general.

"As for the bilateral relations of Russia and Sweden in this regard, I hope that this will not have any influence," Vigemark said.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry earlier, the Russian side demanded that the Swedish authorities explain the incident with Andrei Zamyatyanin. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that "such incidents cannot but affect our relations with Sweden."

Vigemark emphasized that he could not comment on the undergoing trial in connection with the detention of Zamyatnin. "From the part of the Swedish government, we have no influence on this," said the representative of the Swedish diplomatic mission.

Vigemark said that he did not know the details associated with the detention of a Russian scientist. “I cannot comment on this case - it would be erroneous and would take us away along the false path,” said Vigemark. He noted that the most important thing now is to wait for the decision to make a Swedish court, and emphasized that he completely trusts the Swedish judicial system.

The diplomat emphasized that the precedent with the detention of Zamyatnin will not create obstacles to trips to Sweden of Russian citizens. "I am absolutely sure that there is no danger to Russian citizens to go to Sweden - be it a student or a person who goes in order to study," said Vigemark.

At the meeting of the diplomat with students were the parents and wife of Andrei Zamyatnin, who was detained in Sweden, who handed the representative of the Swedish embassy to the appeal of prominent Russian scientists who defended the Russian citizen. They asked to transfer this appeal to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Vigemark promised to do this.

A group of famous Russian scientists, including Nobel laureates, defended Andrei Zamyatnin. "The absurdity of the detention of Andrei Zamyatnin is flagrant," the appeal directed by the president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Jan Lindsteu.

“We hope that the absurd scandal, which is harmful to traditionally warm Russian -Swedish relations, will be discontinued in the very near future and will not force to doubt the sincerity of the Western declarations about the priority of such universal values ​​as human freedom and the inviolability of his personality,” the message says.

The appeal was signed by eight Russian scientists, including Laureates of the Nobel Prize of the Academy Zhores Alferov and Vitaly Ginzburg, as well as Russian President Yuri Osipov and the rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy.

They called on the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to promote the liberation of Andrei Zamyatnin, Interfax reports. "The arrest of the scientist Zamyatnin contradicts the whole logic of Western democracy. While the Russian intelligentsia strives to unite with the world intellectual community, the West not only does not reach out the hands of assistance, but also pursues a Russian scientist," the text of which was transmitted on Wednesday of Interfax - one of the authors of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladimir Skulachev.

At a meeting with Vigemark, the wife of a detained scientist Victoria Zamyatnin said that in connection with this incident her family caused serious moral damage. "From this scandal, relatives and friends of Andrei are very suffering, starting with the 7 -year -old daughter and ending with the old people who are in 90 years," Zamyatnina said.

Initially, television journalists also came to the Vigemark meeting with students, but the representative of the Swedish embassy asked them to turn off the cameras and retire beyond the room. “I think that our relationship is not so dramatic that there are television cameras in their light,” Vigemark said. He advised "interested people", including those who addressed him with questions of his parents and wife Zamyatnin, "turn to the Russian Foreign Ministry" for clarification.