Guy’s company, Omnimap, was one of the first to import Soviet military maps to the West.
Import is a huge stretch. More like stealing state secrets (and now admitting to it publicly?).
Import is a huge stretch. More like stealing state secrets (and now admitting to it publicly?).
Furthermore, it's very likely that the seller also is completly legal - as long as it's outside of Russia but one of ex-USSR republics, their new legal systems generally don't prohibit distributing USSR state secrets, only documents that are classified by their own new authorities.
But I would guess you also can't just storm into Mosfilm or Lenfilm (movie production studios) and start copying all their movies made during the Soviet times and selling them for profit.