Russia and Estonia 'exchange spies' after Kohver row

Russia and Estonia have exchanged two convicted spies
over a bridge separating the countries.
Estonian security official Eston Kohver was sentenced to
15 years in a Russian jail last month.
   He was swapped for Aleksei Dressen, who was imprisoned in
Estonia in 2012 on charges of spying for Moscow.
Kohver's case provoked a diplomatic row, with Estonia and
the EU insisting he was abducted from Estonian soil, a
charge Russia denied.
Dressen was a former officer in Estonia's security police,
who was found guilty of passing secret data to Russia for
years after Estonia's independence in 1991.
     He had been arrested in 2012 along with his wife, Victoria
Dressen, who was given a suspended sentence.
According to the Russian Federal Security Service, the
swap took place on a bridge over the Piusa River that
separates Russia's western Pskov region and Estonia's
Polva county.
    The exchange came after "long-term negotiations", the
head of Estonia's Internal Security Service, Arnold Sinisalu
said at a televised news conference, sitting alongside
Kohver.
     The Estonian agent said he was glad to be back home and
thanked "all the authorities who helped me get back to
Estonia, who helped me to, so to say, endure in prison".
Relations between Russia and its Baltic neighbours have
been uneasy since they joined Nato and the European Union
in 2004.
     They have worsened since the crisis in Ukraine, where
Russia is accused of arming separatists in the east - which
Moscow denies.