Felix Karasev or Feliks Dmitriyevich Sutyrin (russian: Феликс Дмитриевич Сутырин; 1 May 1929, Leningrad – 12 January 2023, St. Petersburg) was a
KGB
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General and Soviet diplomat. He served three times in
Finland
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between 1963 and 1992. His memoir ''Naapurinpojan muistelmat'' was published in Finnish language in 1998.
Both
Vladimir Putin
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and
Sergei Ivanov
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worked for Karasev when he was in the Leningrad and Leningrad Region Directorate of the KGB.
Birds of a feather, upwardly mobile.
''Helsingin Sanomat''.
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1929 births
2023 deaths
Soviet diplomats
KGB officers