In the epic US-Russian prisoner swap last summer, Vladimir Putin brought home an assassin, spies, and another prized ally: ...

Earlier, in February, Russia freed Marc Fogel, a US schoolteacher who had been serving a 14-year sentence for drug smuggling after being caught at a Moscow airport with a small quantity of marijuana.

U.S. citizen Marc Fogel being escorted to an airport in Moscow, Russia on February 14, 2025 after being freed in a prisoner swap between Washington and Moscow. U.S. citizen Marc Fogel being ...

Russian media said Friday, days after a Moscow-Washington prisoner swap that the White House called a diplomatic thaw and a step toward ending the fighting in Ukraine. Russian police said the 28 ...

Kremlin Says Topic of Another Russia-US Prisoner Swap Is on the Agenda MOSCOW (Reuters ... drug smuggling after being caught at a Moscow airport with a small amount of marijuana.

The swap came on the heels of a much larger prisoner exchange last August, involving the United States, Germany, Norway, Slovenia, Russia and Belarus. Among those freed at that time was Evan ...