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Dissident says his removal from Russia was illegal and that he will return to his motherland soon

Negotiations, which began months earlier, originally included release of late opposition leader

While there is only one known assassin among them, all of the Russians exchanged in Thursday’s trade have unique, and in most cases, quite surreal, backstories, reports Justin Rohrlich

When eight Russian citizens including a convicted hitman touched down in Moscow on Thursday in a historic prisoner swap with the West, President Vladimir Putin greeted them like heroes.

Members of Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, and sleeper agents living abroad were among those freed in a multinational prisoner swap on Thursday. The children of deep-cover agents posing as Argentinian expats in Slovenia were not even aware of their Russian heritage until they were transported to Moscow along…

New details have emerged on the largest prisoner swap since the Cold War, with the Kremlin acknowledging for the first time that some of the Russians held in the West were from its security services

Planes land in Germany and Poland for high-profile Russian prisoner swap involving former FSB colonel and release of German citizens.

The behind-the-scenes operation was documented meticulously by the Wall Street Journal, which has been unable to reveal its secrets until now

Gershkovich was the first reporter to be charged with espionage since the cold war, and Putin barely hid his aim

Berlin said it took part in exchange involving Vadim Krasikov to support US and protect German nationals

Arrest of Dmitry Bulgakov is latest high-profile incident in ongoing purge within Moscow’s military top brass