Nikitin Freed

The World

Charles Maynes reports from Moscow on the recent acquittal and release of Alexander Nikitin. The former Russian naval officer had been on trial for treason for allegedly giving state secrets to a European environmental group documenting radioactive waste at a submarine base in the Arctic Ocean.

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