# Mikhail Semenko/ Misha Semenko

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 26, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mikhail-semenko-misha-semenko/792131 "2017-07-26T02:24:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Potestas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@Potestas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Potestas)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mikhail-semenko-misha-semenko/792131/1 "2017-07-26T02:24:12Z")

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Whatever happened to Mikhail Semenko/ Misha Semenko after being deported from the United States in 2010 for espionage?

I tried to find the guy’s social media profile on the Russian social media network VK and came up with two possibilities albeit both of them have information that fits loosely within known information about the guy

[https://vk.com/id358571913](https://vk.com/id358571913)  
[https://vk.com/id22593533](https://vk.com/id22593533)

Public accounts say that the guy was brilliant in foreign policy particularly Asian affairs and he had his own blog for a while

> **[Illegals Program | Mikhail Semenko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program#Mikhail_Semenko)**
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> Mikhail Semenko (Russian: Михаил Семенко) was one of the two agents who "operated under their true names". He is reported to have studied for one year at the Harbin Institute of Technology. He also attended school and received graduate degrees in the United States at Seton Hall University, one of the degrees being from the Whitehead School of Diplomacy. He is fluent in English, Mandarin, Russian, and Spanish. He later worked for the Conference Board in New York City in 2009, and for 2009–2010 Sem...

> **[Profile: Russian agents' all-American lives](https://www.bbc.com/news/10459664)**
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> Most of the Russian spy ring members appear to have led middle-class, all-American lives, passing themselves off as entrepreneurs, setting up home in leafy suburbs, raising families.

> **[Accused spy’s employer: Semenko smart, yet clumsy](https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/30/employer-accused-spy-smart-yet-clumsy/)**
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> Mikhail Semenko’s employer knew he liked to frequent embassy functions and didn’t want to work at his small travel agency forever, but he was stunned when the somewhat awkward Russian immigrant was accused of being a spy.

Any idea where this guy is now and what he is up to these days?

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**Author:** ![ToughLife](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@ToughLife](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToughLife)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mikhail-semenko-misha-semenko/792131/2 "2017-07-26T14:18:59Z")

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The first two links in your post have nothing to do with Michail Semenko, the spy you are asking about.  
They are just namesakes.

[His bio (in Russian)](https://lenta.ru/lib/14206099/) is different.

The only information about Semenko I could find is from  
[this article (in Russian)](https://republic.ru/russia/rossiyskie_shpiony_god_spustya_svoikh_ne_brosaem-696682.xhtml) which is admittedly quite old

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> Another ex-spy Mikhail Semenko, who, while in the US, worked at the travel agency Travel All Russia does not advertise his current job.  
> His accounts on social networks, which he used actively before being sent to Russia, have not been updated for a long time, he did not answer Slon’s question about his new job.