On: The Spy Who Added Me on LinkedIn

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Has anybody managed to extract what was actually "spy" worthy that the guy did?

"Asked people for information" isn't saying anything. What do I miss? What were the secrets?

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> On May 24, 2016, Buryakov was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and he now resides in the federal low-security prison in rural Lisbon, Ohio.

Sentenced to just 30 months in a low-security prison... must not have been too severe.

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Sounds like they were particularly after information private to businesses, since that is a large part of American interests.

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The article said he was charged with being an "unregistered foreign agent".