Lennikov would not be separated from his wife and son if they simply went with him. Why don they?
Not so simple. His son, Dmitri, who has grown up in Canada and is just graduating from high school, would automatically be subject to the Russian draft. Hazing rituals in the Russian army are notoriously brutal and occasionally fatal. They would certainly not be suspended for the son of a traitor — which Dmitri is under Russian law. Far from being a friend of the KGB, his father has betrayed it by revealing details to CSIS. He could be subject to prosecution in Russia, although the government describes this possibility as “speculation.” While the KGB no longer exists, it is thought to have “morphed” into the new FSB. Meanwhile, the most powerful man in Russia is a former KGB officer: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
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