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Ad Policy Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and US President Donald Trump shake hands before a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018.(Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images) Moscow ...

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Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist whose arrest in Moscow in 1986 on fabricated espionage charges threatened to derail Cold War détente amid crisis talks that led to a prisoner swap for ...