As a historic prisoner exchange unfolds, a look back at other famous East-West swaps
When Washington and Moscow exchange prisoners, it usually comes after months of secret, back-channel negotiations
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When Washington and Moscow exchange prisoners, it usually comes after months of secret, back-channel negotiations
August 01, 2024A lawyer for Ilya Yashin says the prominent Kremlin critic has been moved to an unknown destination from his prison where he was serving an 8 1/2-year sentence for criticizing Russia’s war in Ukraine
July 30, 2024Watching the Paris Olympics will be difficult for most people in Russia, and in the view of local media it’s not really worth the effort
July 27, 2024Thousands of athletes in major and obscure sports are vying for medals in the Russian city of Kazan at the BRICS Games, an international competition shadowed by politics amid Russia’s exclusion from major sports events
June 12, 2024Just a few months short of a quarter-century as Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin starts another six-year term as president holding extraordinary power
May 05, 2024A Moscow court has imposed a 50,000-ruble ($560) fine on a TV presenter and actress who gained notoriety for hosting an “almost naked” party, saying her social media posts calling for peace discredited the military
April 25, 2024Immediately after the Friday evening attack in Moscow that killed at least 137 people, Russian officials were suggesting, without presenting evidence, that Ukraine was responsible
March 25, 2024The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by the Russian government as citizens of Tajikistan
March 25, 2024As Vladimir Putin heads for another six-year term as Russia’s president, there’s little electoral drama in the race
March 14, 2024A century after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union is largely an afterthought in modern Russia
January 21, 2024Vladimir Putin has moved to prolong his repressive and unyielding grip on Russia for at least another six years, announcing his candidacy in the presidential election next March that he is all but certain to win
December 08, 2023When Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, the outside world viewed “Russian oligarchs” as men who whose vast wealth, ruthlessly amassed, made them almost shadow rulers
December 06, 2023Vladimir Putin is expected to seek another term in the Kremlin when Russia holds presidential elections next March
November 02, 2023The exodus of more than 78,000 ethnic Armenians this week from Nagorno-Karabakh in the southern Caucasus Mountains has been a vivid and shocking tableau of fear and misery
September 28, 2023The news of a cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh, a day after Azerbaijan shelled Armenian forces, toned down fears of a third full-scale war over the region, But it also left significant unresolved questions
September 19, 2023