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Inside the deal that led to a blockbuster prisoner swap between U.S., Russia
For the past two weeks, Biden administration officials were confident that they had finally secured a deal to release more than a dozen journalists, pro-democracy activists and wrongfully detained Americans from Russian prisons. The negotiations had been …