MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 08th July, 2020) The defense of ex-journalist Ivan Safronov, serving as an adviser to the chief of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, will contest the decision of the court to arrest him until September 6 on suspicions of passing state secrets to a NATO country, lawyer Ivan Pavlov told Sputnik on Tuesday.
"Yes, we will lodge an appeal," Pavlov said.
