Russian ‘Slave-Labor’ Soldier Charged With Desertion

SARATOV, Russia — A Russian soldier who claims he spent more than a decade in forced labor has been officially charged with desertion, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. Andrei Popov went missing 11 years ago while serving his mandatory two-year military service in the Tatishchev military garrison in Russia’s southwestern region of Saratov. Popov reappeared in […]