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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 ...
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 ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian security forces stormed a prison on Friday to free hostages seized by knife-wielding prisoners who identified themselves as Islamic State militants, according to news ...
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 .
The Soviet-era maximum-security penitentiary facility at Chernokozovo was closed down during the First Chechen War in December 1994. It was re-opened by the Russian federal forces during the Second Chechen War at the end of 1999, officially as a "temporary reception center for the persons detained on the grounds of vagrancy and begging".
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 ...
A U.S./Russian dual citizen, he was arrested while visiting Russia for social media posts he had made previously which were critical of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He was charged with "rehabilitation of Nazism" and sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. [93] [94] Trevor Reed: 16 August 2019 Released 27 April 2022 985