Marine Trevor Reed freed from jail in dramatic US-Russia prisoner swap

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Ex-marine Trevor Reed freed from jail in dramatic US-Russia prisoner swap

Moscow agrees to release Reed in exchange for Konstantin Yaroshenko, Russian pilot serving 20-year US prison term for drug trafficking

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Russia and the US have carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange, trading a marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America, a senior US official and the Russian foreign ministry said.