Felix Karasev

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Felix Karasev or Feliks Dmitriyevich Sutyrin (Russian: Феликс Дмитриевич Сутырин; 1 May 1929, Leningrad – 12 January 2023, St. Petersburg) was a KGB General and Soviet diplomat. He served three times in Finland between 1963 and 1992. His memoir Naapurinpojan muistelmat was published in Finnish in 1998.[1]

Both Vladimir Putin and Sergei Ivanov worked for Karasev when he was in the Leningrad and Leningrad Region Directorate of the KGB.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hämäläinen, Unto (3 February 2023). "Felix Karasev 1929–2023: Koiviston ja Kremlin viestinviejä". Helsingin Sanomat (Obituary) (in Finnish). p. B 16.
  2. ^ Birds of a feather, upwardly mobile. Archived 20 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine Helsingin Sanomat.