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Putin’s Secret Dealmaker Emerges From the Shadows in Ukraine Peace Talks

Sergei Beseda, known to the CIA as ‘the Baron,’ also figured in one of the world’s biggest prisoner swaps

‘Did You Forget About Marc Fogel?’: An American Teacher Is Released From Russian Prison

His mother lobbied Trump at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., just before an assassination attempt. Now her son is back.

Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond

The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era

Russia-Ukraine Standoff Over POWs Leaves Thousands Stuck in ‘Gray Zone’

Kyiv says Russia is using the prisoners to put pressure on President Volodymyr Zelensky