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Putin's Spies Expelled by West Bemoan Lack of Jobs in Russia
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https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-putin-spies-lack-jobs-1841029
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
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Staff at Moscow’s diplomatic missions in the West expelled due to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine have found it tough to get work upon their return to Russia, it has been reported.
The independent Russian-language investigative news outlet said the missive came from a source in the Russian presidential administration, although the names of its 11 signatories are blacked out.
After Putin launched his full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, the U.S. led the international response in imposing sanctions aimed at isolating Russia’s economy.
The measures included the expulsion of 698 Russian diplomats from EU countries, with The Insider reporting that almost half of them were career officers of the intelligence services, the GRU, the SVR and the FSB.
For many families of these officers, “the unexpected departure from diplomatic missions became a personal tragedy and gave rise to numerous problems,” the letter said.
The letter also took issue what it said were reports in the West accusing Russian intelligence officers “incompetence and inaction, and sometimes even of gross unprofessionalism,” amid accounts they got drunk and into fights.
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