Comment Re:Russians seem a bit quiet? (Score 1) 810
Yes, this is true, and he was officially arrested on drug charges, but the media widely reported his past training in an "spy school", in particualr, his perfect command of Russian.
I don't think his release had anything to do with the Sklyarov case - more likely it was related to a spy case that was going on in the US at the same time (an Americal FBI officer who was found to be spying for Russia).
So "spy war" is similar to the Cold War "mutual destruction doctrine" - each country knows about spies of the other one, but does not arrest them, assuming that the other country will do the same with their spies (presumably also trying to feed false information to them at the same time).
-- Kostya
I don't think his release had anything to do with the Sklyarov case - more likely it was related to a spy case that was going on in the US at the same time (an Americal FBI officer who was found to be spying for Russia).
So "spy war" is similar to the Cold War "mutual destruction doctrine" - each country knows about spies of the other one, but does not arrest them, assuming that the other country will do the same with their spies (presumably also trying to feed false information to them at the same time).
-- Kostya
