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FACTBOX: Cases of prisoner exchanges between the Soviet Union/Russia and US
The first high-profile exchange took place on February 10, 1962, when Soviet intelligence officer William Fischer (better known as Rudolf Abel), arrested in New York on June 21, 1957, was exchanged ...
Inside Russia's torture prisons for Ukrainian POWs: Guards are ordered to 'be cruel, without pity' and experiment to find new ways to brutalise and inflict pain - as horrif…
Prisoners are brutally beaten for even looking a guard in the eye, one ex-employee said, and guards would ritually beat them ...
‘Be cruel’: Inside Russia’s torture system for Ukrainian POWs
In the early weeks of the war, prison authorities told top guards there would be no restrictions against violence.
Russia’s sick torture of Ukrainian POWs — including shocks to genitals, beatings, amputations — laid bare in ICC testimony
Russia built a complex torture system to deal with Ukrainian prisoners of war that saw Kyiv’s soldiers taking relentless ...
Putin Fires Head of Space Agency Amid Nuclear Missile Failures
Vladimir Putin has dismissed the head of Roscosmos in a move which follows a series of setbacks for Russia's space agency ...