Russia sends ex-US consulate employee to prison for ‘secret collaboration with foreign state’
Robert Shonov worked for 25 years for consulate and was arrested on suspicion of passing secret information about war in Ukraine to US
A Russian former employee of the US consulate in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok has been sentenced to four years and ten months in prison for “secret collaboration with a foreign state”.
Robert Shonov worked for more than 25 years for the US consulate until 2021, when Moscow imposed restrictions on local staff working for foreign missions.
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