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Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan released in massive US-Russia prisoner exchange
(The Hill) — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were released in a historic ...
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The Prisoners at the Center of the Russia Exchange
Russia is releasing 16 prisoners from around the world, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, in exchange for eight prisoners with Russian ties—including alleged hackers and ...
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Russia releases 25 captive Ukrainians, including Mariupol defenders
Defenders of the city of Mariupol and of the Azovstal steel plant in southeastern Ukraine are among the 25 prisoners released by Russia in a reciprocal prisoner exchange, the first of 2025. The freed ...
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Russia's worker shortage is so bad the economy is leaning on the Soviet-era practice of using prison labor, think tank says
Russia's worker shortage is so bad, the nation is increasingly leaning on prison labor to prop up its ... as a pariah state isolates it from world trade. Read next Jump to ...