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Putin pledges to assist all Russians detained abroad
Russia will always assist its citizens detained abroad, President Vladimir Putin said in Vladivostok on Thursday, following a major prisoner exchange with Western countries in August. Putin was speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in the city in the Russian Far East. He was responding to a question about whether Russians held in the U.S. could be returned to Russia.…
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2 Russians, 1 American return from 6 months on space station
A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and an American landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday, ending the astronauts’ nearly six months aboard the International Space Station. The capsule carried Russians Alexander Samokutayev and Elena Serova and NASA’s Barry Wilmore. They blasted off for the space station on Sept. 26. The capsule landed upright in heavy fog southeast of the town of…
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