 Can someone like Kovalev simply decide to drop all of that and become a chef? It is not an easy job to just leave that behind. Once you're in the military and you've been trained and the Ministry of Defense has invested in you, you remain at their beck and call for the rest of your life. We don't know what Kovalev was up to, but our sources say over months he spent 80 hours being interviewed by FBI agent Kerry.