Died Soviet intelligence officer Zinaida Batraeva

“Mom died on Thursday (April 22 -

),” RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service noted that Zinaida Batraeva, together with her husband Boris Batraev, left a bright mark in the history of the country's foreign intelligence.

On March 22, Colonel-General Vitaly Margelov, the former deputy head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, passed away.