The World - News from Aug. 13, 1986
Finland refused asylum to a defecting Soviet soldier but said it will deport him to a third country rather than hand him back to the Soviet Union. An Interior Ministry statement did not say when Igor Azhevski, 23, will be deported or name the third country. It said he will not be allowed to stay because he committed crimes in Finland and does not qualify for asylum. Azhevski was sentenced by a Finnish court to a suspended five-month prison sentence and fined $920 for illegally crossing the border, for theft and other offenses.
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