ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Anton Kolomitsyn can be used to getting papers that are official. For over three decades, he has got invested a lot of their spare time tramping the remote corners of Russia shopping for the undiscovered keeps of Soviet soldiers killed in your community during World War II.
He’s got a stack that is impressive of, letters of appreciation, along with other tokens of recognition of their efforts.
But in early stages the early early morning of January 21, agents for the Federal safety provider see here now (FSB) presented Kolomitsyn with two more documents that are official a search warrant and an arrest warrant on fees of possessing state secrets.
“I, needless to say, know very well what the FSB is and all sorts of their history, but we’d never really had any transactions using them prior to, ” Kolomitsyn told RFE/RL. “But now one morning at 7 a. M january. I happened to be resting a sleep that is sweet — growth! — they hand me a search warrant. Every thing took place politely, formally. They did not turn out of the compartments, nevertheless they went through every thing. Continue reading