Robert Shonov, a former U.S. consulate employee, was sentenced in Russia for alleged foreign cooperation.

Robert Shonov, a former U.S. consulate employee in Vladivostok, was sentenced to four years and ten months in prison by a Russian court for allegedly cooperating with a foreign state. Arrested in May 2023, he was charged under a new Russian law criminalizing such cooperation. The U.S. State Department condemned the arrest, asserting the charges are baseless and stating that Shonov's role involved compiling media summaries from publicly available sources.

November 01, 2024
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