MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has sentenced a man to 13 years in prison for trying to pass military secrets about Russia's Northern Fleet to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday.
The FSB said in a statement that a court in Bryansk, southwest of Moscow, had found Yuri Eschenko guilty of state treason on Nov. 17 and sentenced him to 13 years in a high-security facility.
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