MOSCOW FEARS FINNO-UGRIC SUBVERSION.

Federal Security Serviceofficials in Tyumen oblast told Krasnaya zvezda July 18that the secret services of Estonia, Finland and Hungary are engagingin espionage there, recruiting Gazprom employees, and encouragingseparatist movements among their linguistic cousins, the Finno-Ugricpeoples of the Russian north. This claim appears to be Moscow’sreaction to several recent public gatherings of Finno-Ugric peoplesthat included representatives of the three countries now chargedwith spying.

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