They said they worry it could "encourage" Russian President Putin to take more hostages.Andrei Pivovarov ... were among those freed in the largest prisoner exchange since the Cold War.

As the three Americans freed from Russia in a prisoner swap ... IRS fines and fees racked up during the time they were ...

Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who was released in a prisoner swap by Moscow in August, has been placed on Russia's "wanted" list, according to an interior ministry database seen by AFP ...

Authorities said the special forces operation had freed some hostages and ... employees and four convicts had been taken hostage. Some reports in Russian media suggested that the prison's director ...

The rebels freed around 150 hostages soon ... we want an absolute end to the war and the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya." Anguished hostage Tatyana Solnyshkina, speaking by mobile ...

Gritzewsky is terrified a deal could break down or he could die in captivity before he’s freed. Gritzewsky knows first-hand ...

Three Americans who were freed in a prisoner swap deal with Russia, including Wall Street ... "From the Kremlin point of view, it merely confirms that hostage-taking and extortion is a successful ...

Russian special forces freed two prison guards and shot dead six inmates linked to the Islamic State militant group who had taken them hostage at a detention centre in the southern city of Rostov ...

Anti-Kremlin artist and musician Alexandra Skochilenko, freed in a historic prisoner swap in August, has urged Western ...

A total of 251 people were taken in the attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. We’re tracking what happened to each of them.

She would return her son from captivity in Russia.  “We just have to be patient, and optimistic,” she told ABC News in March ...