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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

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 04 August 2024

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Some prisoners freed from Russia and Belarus in a major swap had feared for their lives, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Friday, after meeting a group of the detainees on their arrival in Germany.

He described a "moving" encounter with the prisoners, many of whom "did not expect this to happen now," adding: "Many feared for their health and even their

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 04 August 2024

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Updated with death toll.

At least seven people were killed in a gas explosion at an apartment block in the Ural Mountains region of Sverdlovsk on Thursday, Russian emergency officials said.

A large part of the five-story panel building in the industrial city of Nizhny Taigil was completely torn to pieces, videos showed. Officials told state media

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 04 August 2024

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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris called Russian opposition token Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, to discuss Thursday's enormous Russia-West detainee exchange, Navalnaya's spokesperson said.Harris called her to go over the exchange and reveal her support, noting Alexei and Yulia's contribution to the fight

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 02 August 2024

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The historical prisoner swap with Russia that freed U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich and 15 other Westerners was the fruit of painstaking, secret talks-- and one essential telephone call from President Joe Biden an hour before he dropped his reelection bid.Biden welcomed the families of the three U.S. residents and one U.S. homeowner to the White House

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 02 August 2024

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U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, Russian-British opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza and U.S.-Russian reporter Alsu Kurmasheva were freed from Russian prison on Thursday, in the biggest and most complicated prisoner exchange in between Russia and the West because the end of the Cold War.The 4 were launched in a swap