ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Anton Kolomitsyn can be used to receiving papers that are official. For longer than three decades, he has got invested a lot of their time that is free tramping remote corners of Russia interested in the undiscovered keeps of Soviet soldiers killed in your community during World War II.

He’s got an impressive stack of commendations, letters of appreciation, along with other tokens of recognition of their efforts.

But in early stages the early morning of January 21, agents associated with Federal safety provider (FSB) presented Kolomitsyn with two more formal papers: a search warrant as well as an arrest warrant on costs 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 — boom! — they hand me a search warrant. Everything occurred politely, formally. They did not turn out of the compartments, nonetheless they had every thing.

«They took the computer systems, the discs, the flash drives, » he added. «as well as took me with their head office on Liteiny Avenue. «

A day or two from then on event, Kolomitsyn fled their homeland. He spoke to RFE/RL from an immigration center into the Netherlands, where he’s sent applications for political asylum.

«I became pretty upset by all that, » he recalled. «We have a large amount of connections and I also consulted using them. Leer más