1 November 1996 Vladimir Alganov, colonel, Soviet and Russian security-service officer. He came to Poland in 1981 as first secretary of the Soviet Embassy, a post he held until 1992. Since 1982, he has returned to Poland several times on business. He left Poland on 5 December 1995. Then-Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy said that his relationship with Alganov was purely […]

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