Plekhanov

Among them was a group of students from the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.

Plekhanov alerted the SBU and a trap was set in a cluttered back-street garage where he had agreed to hand over the missile secrets.

Plekhanov, an employee at Dnipro’s Yuzhnoye design bureau, whom the North Korean had first approached by appealing to him on ideological grounds as a communist before offering him a bribe of about $1,000, Ukrainian authorities said.

Her precocious talent, encouraged by a maths-mad family and a favourite female teacher who transformed every lesson into one giant problem-solving game, led to a degree in mathematical economics at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.

According to Reuters, he graduated from the School of Physics at Moscow State University in 1993 and three years later graduated from Moscow’s School of Economics at Plekhanov Academy of Economics.