Russian Army Officer Sentenced For Spying For Georgia
August 28, 2009
ROSTOV-ON-DON -- The Rostov Military District Court in Russia has sentenced a colonel of the Russian Army to six years of jail for espionage, RFE/RLs Russian Service reports.
Colonel Mikhail Khachidze was found guilty of handing classified data to Georgia's secret services in exchange for $ 2,000.
He was detained in August last year in the wake of the Russian-Georgian military conflict over Georgia's breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
-Russia is facing some tough times, 700,000 Russian civilians are leaving the country every year to seek better oppurtunities..Money is a big issue in Russia, but leaking out government secrets to the enemy for $2,000, really shows how much distress is in the government..
August 28, 2009
ROSTOV-ON-DON -- The Rostov Military District Court in Russia has sentenced a colonel of the Russian Army to six years of jail for espionage, RFE/RLs Russian Service reports.
Colonel Mikhail Khachidze was found guilty of handing classified data to Georgia's secret services in exchange for $ 2,000.
He was detained in August last year in the wake of the Russian-Georgian military conflict over Georgia's breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
-Russia is facing some tough times, 700,000 Russian civilians are leaving the country every year to seek better oppurtunities..Money is a big issue in Russia, but leaking out government secrets to the enemy for $2,000, really shows how much distress is in the government..