![]() The 37-year old, Polish-born polyglot taught himself English, Dari, Farsi, and Tajik before joining the Faculty of International Relations and Political Science at Kazan University, where he published an academic paper entitled "Iranian-British relations during the reign of Reza Shah (1921-1941)" while a student.Īkhtareyev's first foreign posting was as "press secretary" to the Russian mission in Tehran some 10 years ago.Īnd he was not the only scholarly spy expelled from Russia's EU mission, according to EUobserver and Dossier Center's sources. The Orientalist, Timur Akhtareyev, also an SVR officer, used the cover of "first secretary" at Russia's EU embassy. The navy minister used to live in Mariupol, in today's Ukraine, and once organised exports from the Azovstal steel plant, which became infamous this year after Russia's bombardment of civilians there.Īnd Nedyak Sr.'s contemporaries told Dossier Center the minister was so fond of Ukrainian culture, he used to carry a thermos of Ukrainian borscht when he went on foreign trips. ![]() been alive today, he might himself have become a target of his grandson's propaganda as an enemy sympathiser. The Russian spy expulsions came in reaction to atrocities in Ukraine.Īnd, in an ironic twist, had Nedyak Sr. Nedyak "while at the EU mission, supervised the pro-Kremlin Russia Today, Sputnik, and bloggers broadcasting to European audiences", a source at Ria Novosti, a Russian state media, told the Dossier Center, a London-based NGO which hunts Russian spies in Europe. was actually a lieutenant colonel in Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service and a communications specialist who previously worked in Russian IT giants, such as Sistema Group and IBS Group Holding, and whose task in Brussels was to orchestrate anti-EU and anti-Ukraine propaganda. ![]() Expelled Russian 'counsellor' Arseny Nedyak (Photo: Dossier Center)īut what they didn't know was that Nedyak Jr. ![]()
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