MOSCOW REGION, October 2 (RIA Novosti)-A plane carrying four Russian officers charged in Georgia with espionage and released Monday has landed at a military airfield outside Moscow.
A RIA Novosti correspondent reports that Sergei Ivanov, the defense minister and a deputy prime minister, greeted the officers when they landed.
Another officer, Lieutenant Colonel Konstantin Pichugin, was also on the plane. The Georgian authorities had also sought to secure him from Russian military headquarters in the South Caucasus at the height of the spying row last week
The four charged officers were handed over in Tbilisi to representatives of the 55-member Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe earlier Monday evening. They were later transferred to Russian representatives before boarding an Emergency Situations Ministry plane to take them to their homeland.
