In Russia, the Kremlin said President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree pardoning four convicted foreign spies: Alexander Zaporozhsky, Gennady Vasilenko, Sergei Skripal and Igor Sutyagin so that they can be exchanged for the 10 US defendants.
The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that the spy swap exchange being conducted by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service and the CIA was conducted in the context of overall improvement of USA and Russian ties.
Igor Sutyagin is a scientist convicted of passing Russian nuclear secrets to the CIA through the UK.
The 10 Russian agents, including tabloid sensation Anna Chapman [Kushchenko], freed by the United States are part of the biggest spy swap since the Cold War.
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