A Russian man found dead in Bugibba last Wednesday was a nuclear weapons expert, l-orizzont reports today.

Alexander Pikayev 48, was found dead in his apartment. He had a blow to the head and it is suspected that the man died in a fall. His computer was still on when the police went into the apartment.

Dr Pikayev was an expert in Russian nuclear weapons and a consultant to the Russian Parliament.

He is former co-director of the Non-Proliferation Programme of the Carnegie Center in Moscow and was also the director of the section on arms control and nonproliferation at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Russian Academy of Sciences.

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