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Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
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Platon Obukhov
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Career
Platon Obukhov has authored twenty fiction books, including science fiction. He has worked for Russian newspapers Izvestia (1988-1999), Soviet Sport, and others Obukhov is an abstract painter.
Obukhov is an English-Russian translator.
He has translated more than 30 books by English-speaking authors, including books by Emerson Hough, Frederick Remington, Frederick Manfred, George Bird Grinnell, and Martin Gilbert. In 1996, Obukov was arrested in Russia on charges of spying for the United Kingdom.
Following his re-trial, on 17 May 2002 his conviction was reaffirmed by the Moscow City Court, but the court further found him not responsible on the grounds of mental illness, and ordered him transferred from prison to a psychiatric hospital.
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United Russia