INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY OF “CHEKISTS.”

Foreign Intelligence Service press aide Tatiana Samolis told Segodnya June 6 that the Baltic states should follow the German Constitutional Court’s recent decision calling for an end to prosecutions of East German espionage agents and stop persecution of former KGB and other ex-soviet “chekists” living in the Baltic countries. Such a stance, she said, would “strengthen democracy and social concord.”

Russian Officer Who Surrendered in Chechnya Faces Capital Charges.