Yuri Sagaydak
Yuri Sagaidak was born in 1950 in Alma-Ata (today Almaty), completed his secondary-school education in 1968, and graduated in 1972 from the FSB Academy (known until 1982 as The Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB). He was acting as a journalist for the TASS News Agency and the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in Indonesia and then in the United Kingdom. According to the decision of the editorial board of the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda on 29 December 1987, Yuri Sagaidak was recognised as the best reporter of 1987. In 1989, he was deported from the United Kingdom. According to a local publication, Sagaydak was issued a temporary residence permit to live in Lithuania.