Swapped spy yearning for home

Igor Sutyagin, has been granted a six-month work visa by Britain, but he told Russia's Ekho Mosvky radio station that he doesn't intend to stay.

Sutyagin, speaking for the first time since he was delivered, still in Russian prison attire, to a British military base in Oxfordshire last month, said he is staying with friends in London and is talking to relatives about future employment in Russia.

"It's my country. I am not on the run," he said, adding Russian officials vowed they would not hinder his homecoming.

He and three others convicted of betraying Moscow for the West were pardoned and exchanged in July for 10 Russian agents who had infiltrated suburban America.

Sutyagin was sentenced to 15 years in 2004 on charges of passing information on nuclear submarines and other weapons to a British company that Russian investigators claimed was a CIA cover. He has protested his innocence, saying the information he provided was available from open sources.