The Quiet Little Man. Professor Morozov was supposed to be studying Russia, but he was spying

“An ordinary lecturer,” one of Morozov’s students recalled. “We had excellent teachers who used innovative methods in their work, but he was not like that.”

“He was a quiet, small man who wore plain clothes and liked to take walks along the river. He mostly made friends with other Russians who sat in the office across the street – the door was always open,” recalled Morozov’s former colleague at the University of Tartu. “We thought he was in Estonia to share knowledge about Russia, but he was collecting information about Estonia.”

“He comes across as an educated man,” said a third interlocutor, also a frightened student of the professor.

In mid-June, the Hayu District Court found Vyacheslav Morozov guilty of espionage against the Republic of Estonia and sentenced him to six years and three months in prison.

According to information obtained by the Estonian Security Police (KaPo), Morozov was recruited by Russian intelligence in the 1990s while he was still a university student. KaPo claimed that Morozov’s agency status was frozen in order for him to become a professor at the University of Tartu.

Along with Morozov, 12 other people applied for the professorship of Russian and EU studies at the University of Tartu in 2010. At that time, the process of creating the “Ceurus” center was underway at the university, which was supposed to become a center of excellence in the field of Russian and EU studies.

Morozov “Ceurus” has a specific task. “We were told that this person will provide funding for the institute and write projects