A university professor has been jailed in Estonia after being found guilty of spying for Russia. Viacheslav Morozov, a Russian citizen, taught at the Baltic country’s most prestigious university.
Viacheslav Morozov, a Russia n citizen who taught at the Baltic country’s most prestigious university, was sentenced to six years and three months in prison for collecting information about Estonia ’s defense and security policy and the people and infrastructure related to it, Harju County Court said., all blamed on Moscow. Estonia n officials are extremely hawkish about the threat from Russia and have convicted a number of people of spying for Russia in recent years.
Morozov was recruited in Russia in the early 1990s when he studied at St. Petersburg State University and was influenced by the fact he was a Russian citizen but also by the “romance of intelligence,” Palloson said during a press conference after the verdict. That information was mainly passed on during his frequent trips to Russia, Palloson said, adding that Morozov became more active after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including handing over the personal information of people in Estonia who he thought Russian intelligence might be able to recruit.
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