Simona Supino for BI
From the time he was a little boy growing up in a village in Siberia, Vladislav Ammosov wanted to do his part to serve his native Russia. "It was my childhood dream to become an officer and defend the country," he tells me. Over the years, he rose to the rank of captain in Russia's fearsome military-intelligence unit, the GRU. But now, in late June, we are meeting in Warsaw, Poland, where Ammosov is applying for political asylum.