PRAGUE — For years, Aleksandr Franchetti lived a double life. In Prague, his home off and on since the 1990s, information about the middle-aged Russian man arrested over the weekend for his alleged actions during Moscow’s seizure of Crimea in 2014 is hard to come by.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
RFE/RL: Who is Aleksandr Franchetti?
Unidentified men in military fatigues stand in front of a poster reading "The border of the country - is sacred and untouchable" as they block a base of the Ukrainian frontier guard unit in Balaklava on March 1, 2014.
