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Alexander Vorobyov, 39, who had worked as an aide to the presidential envoy for a year, right, is escorted by a Federal Security Service (FSB), the top KGB successor agency employee into a court room in Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 5, 2019. An aide to the presidential envoy to Russia's Urals region has been arrested on charges of high treason, in the first publicly known case of a government official being arrested on suspicions of treason in post-Soviet Russia. (AP Photo/Sergei Ovchinnikov)

Russian official arrested on high treason charges

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Alexander Vorobyov, 39, who had worked as an aide to the presidential envoy for a year, right, is escorted by a Federal Security Service (FSB), the top KGB successor agency employee into a court room in Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 5, 2019. An aide to the presidential envoy to Russia's Urals region has been arrested on charges of high treason, in the first publicly known case of a government official being arrested on suspicions of treason in post-Soviet Russia. (AP Photo/Sergei Ovchinnikov)

Alexander Vorobyov, aide to Kremlin official, charged in Russia with high treason

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times