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  • XAVIER COLAS

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Updated Tuesday, July 7, 2020 - 22:16

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On an airstrip in Vienna, an aging traitor to Russian espionage just released from prison was exchanged for a red-haired model who had also not turned out to be what he seemed during his double life in the United States. It is 10 years since the largest spy-swapping operation since the Cold War. In 2010 Russia and the US hoped to 'restart' their relations, which had been spoiled by the US military expansion into Central Europe and Russia's armed intervention in Georgia in 2008. Then-Russian President Dimitri Medvedev had just signed with the US leader, Barack Obama, the New Start treaty to control

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