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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Russia arms control expert at centre of US 'spy swap'


Moscow (AFP) July 8, 2010 - Convicted spy Igor Sutyagin had been facing serving out his sentence in hard regime prison in Russia's Far North, but now is at the centre of a mooted swap of prisoners with the United States. Sutyagin, a Russian arms control expert, 45, was convicted in 2004 of handing over classified information to a British company that Russia claimed was a CIA cover, and sentenced to 15 years in jail. ... mo

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