"Ran out in some shorts": Russian Katkov was sent from Latvia for suspicion of espionage (video)
On Wednesday, January 10, Katkov received a message from the Latvia Ministry of Internal Affairs with a prescription to leave the country. Katkov said he wanted to challenge the decision in the right 30 days, but on the morning of January 12, the border guards came to him, gave an hour to the meeting, then to take it to the border.
The man was met in the Pskov region, but already at the checkpoint he stated that he was planning to live and work in Kaliningrad, which is located between Poland and Lithuania. History with Boris Katkov has continued: being already in the territory of the Russian Federation, removed from Latvia, a Russian interviewed the propaganda media "Zvezda" and told reporters that the country's authorities did not give him the opportunity to leave. "I have already decided to go humanly.
I had to close the organization, I am hanging money. I was not given anything. Although politicians said," The month you have. "I was expecting it. Border guards - ed. ) are standing. Therefore, of course, it is unpleasant, "Katkov said. The head of the Latvian-Russian Association of Cooperation also expressed his version of deportation from Latvia.
He believes that the cause of his exaltation from the country was the cultural activity associated with Russia and complained that the country was "oppressed by Russian -speaking" in the country. Katkov believes that Latvia intelligence services can reveal to him because in his time his organization has sent citizens of this country to study in the Russian Federation, where many remained for a permanent place of residence.
And in the Russian Embassy in Latvia, they have already stated that Katkov is "an elderly person, a military pensioner who was a victim of demonstration of a re -encrypted on Russophobia of politicians. " For their part, Delfi journalists sought comments to the Latvia Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Ministry representative Maris Zarinsh explained that "the mentioned person - Russian citizen Boris Katkov - was included in the" black list "on the initiative of the State Security Service in connection with long and systematic cooperation in the interests of the Russian Federation. In the Military Council of Cesiz, then in Daugavpils, he resigned in 1991 in the rank of colonel. In 1998 he received the Latvian passport as a non-citizen, and in 2000 became a citizen of Russia.
In Latvia, 82-year-old Katkov remained a wife, children and grandchildren. Katkov headed the Latvian-Russian Association of Cooperation in 1999. In an interview with Latvijas Avviv 2012, he claimed that it was the idea of the State Duma of the Russian , at the end of April 2023, the Finnish edition of Yle published material that dozens of Russian diplomats in Northern Europe were spies.
About 40 personnel officers of the GRU of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and FSB employees collected data on military facilities, robotics and cyber threats. The spies held the positions of advisers or assistants of military attachés, and journalists found out. And at the beginning of February 2023, the Austrian authorities sent four diplomats of the Russian Federation from the country for suspicion of espionage.