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Medvedev Pardons Released Agents

RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev has pardoned four people jailed for passing secrets to the West as part of a Cold War-style spy swap with the United States, local news agencies reported yesterday.

Medvedev signed a decree to pardon Alexander Zaporozhsky, Gennady Vasilenko, Igor Sutyagin and Sergei Skripal, who were all serving prison terms for espionage, his spokeswoman Natalya Timakova was quoted by Russia's state RIA news agency as saying.



 

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