The Region - News from Aug. 19, 1986
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A Soviet defector charged with murder in the death of his former lover, a Russian emigre who was a minor witness in the first spy trial of former FBI agent Richard Miller, was convicted on a reduced charge of vehicular manslaughter. A Superior Court jury found Vladimir Ratchikhine, 44, guilty of manslaughter without gross negligence--a misdemeanor--in the drowning of Ludmilla Kondratjeva, 36. Sentencing was scheduled for Sept. 15 when Ratchikhine, a former Soviet athlete, coach and film maker who defected in 1981, could face a maximum sentence of one year in County Jail.
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