Moscow and Washington made the largest exchange of spies from the Cold War

Russia today made the largest exchange of spies with the United States since the end of the Cold War, which held as a telling sign of improved relations between Moscow and Washington.

After days of intensive diplomatic consultations, the U.S. released to Russia top ten Russians arrested for spying for Moscow, which in turn freed four Russian citizens serving sentences for working for the U.S. intelligence.

The exchange of spies held in Vienna, Schwechat airport, where they had landed on a Boeing-767 from the USA and a Yak-42 sent by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.

“According to eyewitnesses, the exchange was held by a black minibus,” reported the Austrian agency APA.

Once the exchange was made, the Yak-42 flew to Moscow, where it landed at 17:50 local time (13:50 GMT) at the Domodedovo airport.

The ship picked up in Vienna, the Russians released from Moscow touched down turn in the British air base in Brize Norton, Oxfordshire County, which had been recognized as London, planes sometimes get the CIA.

Ten Russians detained in the U.S. two weeks ago have accepted a deal yesterday with the law by which pleaded guilty of illegal activities, but not spy in return for their deportation to Russia.

For its part, Russia freed from jail and handed over three former officers of its intelligence services and a scientist with the Russian President, Dmitri Medvedev, pardoned yesterday to make the exchange.

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