After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better ...

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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 ...

Belarusian authorities have released an imprisoned U.S. citizen, a Belarusian journalist for a U.S.-funded media outlet and ...

US Envoy for Hostages Adam Boehler said in a CNN interview that one American was among the three detainees. He said that ...

Washington — At least one U.S. citizen who had been detained in Belarus was released Wednesday, the United States' top hostage negotiator said, one of three prisoners being freed.

Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s ...

Andrey Kuznechyk, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was one of those released from a Belarusian prison after ...

An American is one of three hostages released from Belarus, the White House has announced. The identity of the hostage has ...

Accused Russian money launderer Alexander Vinnik is being released from US custody in exchange for Marc Fogel, a Trump ...

21, 2022, after President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization of reservists ... (AP Photo, File) Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko gestures while speaking to the media after voting ...