The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that ten Russian agents presumed arrested last month were deported to Russia. Moscow has instituted its side liberate four prisoners convicted of contacts with Western intelligence agencies. The exchange concludes a case brought last month with the arrest by the FBI ten people suspected of spying for Russia. Dubbed the unlawful, they are suspect of having been sent to the United States under false identities in the Russian intelligence. At a hearing Thursday to federal court in New York, Ten have pleaded guilty, acknowledging foreign agents to be registered not working for Russia, and agreed to be deported. Judge Kimba Wood then stated that they were immediately expelled United States. The judge added that his decision to release the ten was also related to the commitment of Russia to liberate detained four people in Russia. The ten officers expelled could probably go to Russia in the coming hours, according to statements of counsel and the prosecutor before the court. Russian officials have meetings in prison, to discuss the life they could have their arrival in Russia, a prosecutor explained to the hearing..
But that’s it: Russia and the United States announced Friday it has signed a new agreement Start (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) successor to the 1991 Agreement (and its successors) that had expired in die December. It reduces to 800 the number of launchers allowed each side to 700 and even the number of deployed launchers (cons 1600).
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