In Moscow, the 90-year-old Lev Sotzkov, Major General of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, was found in his apartment. This is reported by REN TV.
The wife found his body in the bathroom of the apartment. A award pistol of TT and a note was discovered next to the dead. In it, socialist wrote that weapons are a relic of fights on the Khalkhin-Gol River, which he received when he was a representative at the special service of Mongolia. Preliminary version – suicide.
Lev Sotykov was born in 1932 in Leningrad, after studying at the faculty of international relations, MGIMO went into reconnaissance, where he served for more than 40 years. The author of a number of documentary books and collections of historical documents.