[6][7] This case was widely publicized, well-known scientists and human rights activists spoke out in defense of the physics brothers.

[citation needed] Since Perestroika Minin had been a visiting professor at multiple institutes internationally, including: DaimlerChrysler AG, Doiche Aerospace, Technische Universitat Munchen (Germany), Harbin Institute of Technology, MMW State Key Lab, Nanjing, Beijing Institute of Technology, Capital Normal University (China), Samsung Electronics (Korea), National University of Singapore, Universidad Technica Federico Santa Maria (Chile) and University of Helsinki (Finland).

[1] In collaboration with his brother (twin) Oleg V. Minin 2015 he discovered the so-called photonic hook effect[4][8][9] - artificially curved light beams with subwavelength curvature and beamwidth.

[8] In dielectric structures with a Mie size parameter of order ten, which are in the region between the wave and geometric optics, he and his colleagues have discovered some new unusual effects, including super-resonance[10] - the excitation of giant magnetic fields in dielectric mesoscale particles compared with the magnetic field in Neutron star[11][12] and based on high-order Fano resonance.

With his brother, Minin founded the new field of "freezing droplet optics" with the discovery of unusual time domain effects of photonic hook[13] and Fano resonances.