[Russia] - Estonia Jails Russian Professor 6 Years for Spying

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
An Estonian court on Tuesday sentenced Russian university professor Vyacheslav Morozov to six years and three months in prison on charges of
spying against the Baltic country on behalf of Moscow.Morozov, a political scientist and former professor at the University of Tartu, was
academic was recruited by Russian intelligence services while still a student in the 1990s
suspicion of spying by the Estonian Internal Security Service (ISS) in early January
He was fired from his teaching position at the University of Tartu following the launch of a criminal investigation against him.At the time,
anti-war events organized by Russians living in Tallinn, as well as his own research about civil society and political repression in
Petersburg State University for over a decade.His prison sentence begins on the day of his arrest, Jan
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