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[11] [12] The end of the Cold War in 1991 resulted in a marked decline in espionage activities—and, accordingly, prisoner exchanges—between the U.S. and Soviet Union's successor, the Russian Federation; the most recent mass prisoner swap between the two countries occurred in 2010, when ten Russian sleeper agents detained in the U.S. as part ...
Butyrka prison in Moscow. Prisons in Russia consist of four types of facilities: [1] pre-trial institutions; educative or juvenile colonies; corrective colonies; and prisons.. A corrective colony is the most common, with 705 institutions (excluding 7 corrective colonies for convicts imprisoned for life) in 2019 across the administrative divisions of Russia.
Russian news agencies said he is also being investigated on a more serious charge of assaulting a police officer, which carries up to five years in prison. A court in September denied his appeal ...
Russia has freed Marc Fogel, a U.S. schoolteacher and former employee of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, who had been serving a 14-year sentence for drug smuggling after being caught in possession of ...
Defunct prisons in Russia (1 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Prisons in Russia" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
Memorial, Russia’s oldest and most prominent human rights organization and a 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, counted 558 political prisoners in the country as of April — more than three times ...
Inmates of Russian prisons (11 C) + ... Pages in category "Prisoners and detainees of Russia" The following 129 pages are in this category, out of 129 total.
Kalob Byers, the 28-year-old American citizen detained in Russia on drug smuggling charges earlier this month, has been released from detention, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russia's ...