Russian convicted of spying in Germany, gets suspended term

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a Russian man of espionage and given him a one-year suspended sentence in a case in which he was accused of passing information about European rockets to Russian intelligence. The defendant worked as a research assistant for a science and technology professor at the University of Augsburg until his arrest in June. The Munich state court said Wednesday that a man accredited as a vice consul in the Bavarian city contacted the defendant in 2019, initially telling him that he worked for a Russian bank and needed information on aerospace technology research projects for private investments.