Lithuanian citizen Aristidas Tamosaitis sentenced in Russia on spying charges wants to serve the 12-year sentence in Lithuania.
Experts say the move may be a sign of a brewing exchange of spies.
After receipt of the convict's plea, Lithuania's Justice Ministry turned to Moscow for the man's "handover for serving of further sentence in Lithuania," the ministry's spokesman Audris Kutrevicius told BNS Lithuania on Friday.
Detained in Russia last year, Tamosaitis, born in 1964, was sentenced in March. Moscow then...
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