We have posted quite a lot on Vova Arutyunian in Georgia and his adventures in breeding hamsters and throwing grenades at Bush. Now the Georgian newspapers report that a suspect in February terrorist explosion in Gori was formerly a high-ranking military intelligence officer in the Azeri Army.

According to Rezonansi (as reported by Civil Georgia),

Anatoly Sysoev was born in 1950 in Tbilisi and served in the Soviet, and then Russian military intelligence (GRU). In 1992 he officially resigned from service, but left for Azerbaijan the same year and participated in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in 1992-1995 as a head of field intelligence of the Azerbaijani field artillery.

Civil Georgia reported earlier that

Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili alleged on July 25 that agents of Russia’s Main Intelligence Administration (GRU - Glavnoye Razvedovatelnoye Upravlenie) were behind a car bomb explosion in Gori on February 1, which resulted in death of three Georgian policemen.

He said that the law enforcers arrested in the South Ossetian conflict zone two persons who are suspected in carrying out this terrorist act. Merabishvili said that the third person, with links to this explosion is also arrested.

“According to our information, year and half ago colonel of the Russia’s GRU Anatoly Sisoev has set up a group of saboteurs, which, according to our information was trained on the territory of Russia… This group has carried out the terrorist act here in Gori,” Merabishvili said at a news conference which was held in Gori.

Information on Sysoev can be found here:
Azeri “Ekho” newspaper (in English)
Azerbaijan Monitor Newspaper (in Russian)