GOST for sale

According to a short article in a Swedish newspaper (DN) with the title 'Spy Code of KGB can make computers safe', JETICO INC., located in Finland (Tammerfors), introduced a new crypto system on the world market last week. It's based on GOST, the Russian federal standard algorithm. This product, called BestCrypt, is implemented at least partly in hardware. Alledgedly it uses 'GOST 28147-89', whatever that stands for. GOST is probably very secure - a huge keyspace (256 bits) and KGB would not have left a trapdoor for NSA to take advantage of, would they? The newspaper article ends: 'The Finnish entrepreneurs asseverate that their Russian colleagues have never had anything to do with the KGB.' Mats