Viacheslav Morozov was a well-known professor of political theory at Estonia’s most prestigious university. What was less well known was that the Russian citizen had been spying for Moscow for 14 years. A few months ago, the authorities caught up with him and he was jailed for six years.
The prosecutor said Morozov passed on information about Estonia’s defence and security policies to his Russian special services handlers on regular visits. It is a problem that shows no sign of going away.
‘No matter how many we prosecute, they will keep running agents,’ said Arnold Sinisalu, the former director general of the Estonian Internal Security Service. We have to accept that Russians place a high premium on human intelligence and will be relentless in their pursuit of it, he added.
