【英语国际】被交换到美国的一俄罗斯籍间谍渴望回国

Igor Sutyagin, the physicist deported from Russia this month as part of the exchange for 10 Russian agents arrested in the U.S., broke his two-week silence, with a statement saying he misses his family and hopes to return to Russia at some point.

Mr. Sutyagin was the first of the 14 people involved to comment publicly since the July 9 swap, which evoked memories of similar Cold War exchanges. Days before the swap, he was plucked from a prison camp in Russia's north, taken to Moscow and pressured to sign a confession before being flown on charter flights to Vienna and then on to London.

In a statement issued through his lawyer, Mr. Sutyagin thanked his supporters and said he looked forward to seeing his family, who live outside Moscow. 'I plan to finally return to Obninsk and fix the by-now completely rickety porch of our little house . . . beyond the Protva River,' he wrote. 'A bit sooner, a bit later, I don't know yet, but it will certainly happen.'

People close to him said it could take months or longer, however. 'Desire alone isn't enough,' his mother told Russian news agencies. 'He'll need to see what's happening here since for now, we have no faith in our government.'

Mr. Sutyagin, now 45 years old, had served 11 years of a 15-year sentence for espionage, but continues to deny his guilt. An arms-control specialist, he was arrested in 1999 for allegedly passing secret information to a U.K. company that investigators claimed was a front for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Mr. Sutyagin insisted the information came from open sources. He has challenged his conviction in the European Court of Human Rights.

His case was one of the first of a wave of spying charges against Russian academics that critics claimed were trumped up. 'This spy mania is extremely dangerous,' said Ernst Chernyi, a scientist who heads a group that has championed the cases of Mr. Sutyagin and other jailed scholars. 'I wouldn't say the atmosphere here is improving.'

Pavel Podvig, a colleague who spoke to him by phone this week, said Mr. Sutyagin hopes to return to Russia to 'defend his name' and possibly draw attention to the plight of other academics in jail on espionage charges. For the moment, he is resting and collecting his thoughts, he said.

Associated Press2004年，苏佳金在莫斯科法庭接受判决。
和其他人一起在本月被俄罗斯驱逐出境、与美国所逮捕10名俄罗斯特工交换的物理学家苏佳金(Igor Sutyagin)，用一份声明打破了两个星期的沉默，说他想念家人，希望在某个时候回到俄罗斯。

苏佳金是7月9日互换行动所涉14人当中第一个公开发言的人。这起间谍互换让人想起冷战期间一些类似的行动。互换前几天，苏佳金被从俄罗斯北部的一座监狱带往莫斯科，并被迫签署一份认罪书，然后坐上包机飞往维也纳，接着又飞往伦敦。

苏佳金通过律师发表声明，对他的支持者表示感谢，并说他希望见到目前住在莫斯科郊外的家人。他在声明中说，我打算最终回到奥布宁斯克，修好我们在普罗特瓦河边的小屋那已经摇摇欲坠的门廊；早一点，迟一点，我还不知道具体时间，但这一幕肯定会出现。

但接近他的人说，这可能需要几个月的时间，甚至更久。他的母亲对俄罗斯的通讯社说，仅有愿望是不够的；他将需要看看我们这里是什么情况，因为目前我们不相信自己的政府。

苏佳金45岁，因间谍罪被判15年有期徒刑，已服刑11年，但他一如既往地否认有罪。他是一位军控专家，于1999年因被控向英国一家公司传递机密信息被捕。调查人员声称，这家公司是在为美国中央情报局(Central Intelligence Agency)打掩护。苏佳金坚持说，这些信息来自公开渠道。他曾请求欧洲人权法院(European Court of Human Rights)推翻他遭到的判决。

苏佳金的案件是一系列针对俄罗斯学者的间谍控告中的第一批之一。批评人士说，这些控告都是没有根据的。所带团队曾为苏佳金和其他狱中学者辩护的科学家乔尔内(Ernst Chernyi)说，这种控告别人为间谍的狂热是极度危险的，我不会说这里的氛围正在改善。

同事波德维格(Pavel Podvig)本周和苏佳金通过电话，他说，苏佳金希望回到俄罗斯捍卫他的名誉，并有可能让人们关注其他因间谍指控而身陷囹圄的学者。波德维格说，目前苏佳金正在休养、整理思绪。