The Kremlin on Friday verified that Vadim Krasikov, freed by Germany in Thursday's prisoner swap handle the West, is a personnel with Russia's FSB security service.Moscow likewise said that the kids of an undercover spy couple released by Slovenia did not even understand they were Russian until they boarded the airplane back to Moscow. Krasikov is an
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The widow of a former Chechen military commander gunned down in Berlin said German authorities did not inform her they had actually consented to launch his founded guilty killer in a detainee exchange with Russia on Thursday.Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was shot dead in 2019 by Vadim Krasikov, a Russian intelligence officer who was later sentenced to life in jail
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The United States famously does not negotiate with terrorists. But it has shown willingness on multiple occasions to sit down with enemy states to negotiate the release of both American and foreign nationals, even giving up people who threatened their own national security in return.

This latest prisoner exchange, which includes a total of 24

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Authorities in Moscow on Thursday designated the prisoner rights group Russia Behind Bars and three of its affiliates as “undesirable,” making their work illegal in Russia and putting staff members at risk of jail time.

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office banned the German non-profitRussland hinter gittern — Russia Behind Bars’ legal entity — the M

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Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Friday that U.S. President Joe Biden had nothing to do with the biggest prisoner exchange between Russia and the West because the Cold War.Washington and Moscow performed a historic prisoner swap on Thursday, with Russian authorities launching American journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva,
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris welcomed reporter Evan Gershkovich and two other Americans Thursday as they showed up back on U.S. soil after being released by Russia in a huge detainee swap.Biden and Harris, who is the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate after the president left of the 2024 election, were at Joint
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