‘Spy’ Novelist Spared Treatment

The Moscow City Court on Thursday canceled compulsory psychiatric care for ex-career diplomat Platon Obukhov, putting a formal end to one of the country’s most bizarre spy cases 15 years after it started. After Obukhov’s arrest in April 1996 on charges of passing secrets to British agents while working at the Foreign Ministry, Moscow and London expelled four diplomats each in the first such tit-for-tat exchange since the Cold […]