OREANDA-NEWS Viktor Vasiliev, a Russian political scientist and Africanist who was arrested in Kyrgyzstan on charges of allegedly recruiting mercenaries, was released a year and two months after his detention. The Telegram channel Mash writes about this, citing sources.

Russian intelligence officials arrested Natalia Sekerina, an employee of the Russian House representative office in Osh, on April 23, 2025, when the Kyrgyz State Committee for National Security detained Viktor Vasiliev on charges of recruiting mercenaries. As it became known to Lenta.<url>", a political scientist who had been in Kyrgyzstan for a month after another business trip to Africa, was detained at Bishkek airport before leaving the country.