Putin’s hitman, spies and a credit card fraudster: The prisoners returned to Russia in historic swap
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While there is only one known assassin among them, all of the Russians exchanged in Thursday’s trade have unique, and in most cases, quite surreal, backstories, reports Justin Rohrlich