Love affair to staged arrest: how a Romanian from England was jailed in Russia as a spy

Straits Times22 October 2026, 07:11 UTCRussia

LONDON, Oct 22 - Springtime in a park. Grey sky. A young man in a blue knitted hat and Adidas backpack walks down a path. Two burly security agents spring from a van and pin him to the pavement.

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