“GRU officers do time for drugs, the police for protection rackets”: Inside Russia’s prison colony for crooked cops and spooks
At Correctional Colony No. 11, a high-security prison in the town of Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Region, former officers of the FSB, GRU, FSO, police, and SVR are serving time. A former FSB counterintelligence officer who spent 12 years there told The Insider how to spot an SVR man among the inmates, why GRU officers get locked up so often for drugs, and what the “VIP barracks” — the one that once held Sergei Skripal — really looks like. Contents 1. Church and porridge with butter 2.