Russia, Estonia Exchange Two Men Held for Espionage

Russia and Estonia exchanged two men facing long prison terms for espionage in a cold-war style swap Saturday. Russia released Eston Kohver, an Estonian security officer detained last year, in exchange for Alexei Dressen, a former Estonian official convicted of treason for passing state secrets to Moscow. The swap took place on a bridge over the Piusa River that separates Russia's western Pskov region and Estonia's Polva county, after Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote a...

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