The NRC television company has learned the names of Russian diplomats expelled from Norway. We investigated these people together with the Scandinavians for a large project that will be published soon. In it we will tell you:
🕵️Which of the current employees of the Russian embassies in Scandinavia is not a real diplomat;
🔎How we identify intelligence officers at the embassy;
🤷How the espionage system works under embassy cover.
In the meantime, we’ll tell you who had to pack their bags today.
Vladislav Khlestov was registered at military unit 34608 (309th Central Radio Direction Finding Unit, GRU), and also lived in the departmental dormitory of the Main Directorate of the General Staff at the address: st. Marshala Biryuzova, 4 in Moscow.
Maxim Colossus Graduated from the Naval Institute of Radio Electronics named after. Popov and the Military Academy of the General Staff (formerly the Military Diplomatic Academy, also known as the “Conservatory”).
Maxim Toroptsev was listed as a researcher in military unit 45807 (GRU headquarters), located at st. Khoroshevskoe highway, 76B.
Semyon Seliverstov served in military unit 63180 (39th separate radio engineering brigade of the Special Forces, GRU) in Orenburg.
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