GENEVA, October 2 (RIA Novosti, Yekaterina Andrianova) - The former Russian nuclear power minister who has been in a Swiss prison for five months has not started a hunger strike he promised on Saturday, his lawyer said Sunday.
The lawyer said Yevgeny Adamov, 66, charged by the U.S. with embezzling U.S. government funds allocated to upgrade the safety of Russian nuclear facilities, intended to go on a hunger strike in protest against the Swiss authorities' being unable to decide on his extradition fast.
Russian prosecutors accuse Adamov of fraud and abuse of office. Both Russia and the U.S. want him extradited, and it is up to Switzerland's Department of Justice to decide whose extradition request should be given priority.
