Austrian authorities said Thursday they had issued an arrest warrant for a Russian military intelligence officer over espionage allegations dating back as far as the 1980s.
Police in the Salzburg region said in a statement that "prosecutors have ordered the arrest of a 65-year-old spy handler in the Russian military intelligence service (GRU, now also known as GU) with European and international arrest warrants".
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