Dec 13, 2010

Putin kept his promise of finding jobs for the spies arrested in the US

One of the 10 Russian spies expelled from the United States this summer has been hired as a senior adviser with the country`s state-run oil giant Rosneft, Kommersant cited company sources as saying Monday.

Andrei Bezrukov, who went under the alias of Donald Howard Heathfield in the United States, will serve as an adviser to the president, the business daily reported.

He might eventually be promoted to vice president for international projects. Reportedly, Bezrukov will chair the projects, which are being implemented by Russian Federation in Abkhazia.

`Prime Minister Vladimir Putin kept his promise of finding jobs for the spies arrested in the United States, ensuring that they led `interesting, bright lives,` Kommersant observed on its front page.

The former intelligence agent Putin met the 10 sleeper agents on their return to Russia in July, singing patriotic songs with the group and vowing to secure them a happy future in their native. `They will work, I am sure, they will work in worthy places. I do not doubt that they will have an interesting, bright life," Putin said after the meeting.