Russia has freed Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher serving ​a ‍three-year ​prison sentence for flouting laws requiring "foreign agents" to register with authorities. Vinatier will be exchanged for…

MOSCOW/PARIS, Jan 8 - Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher serving a three-year prison sentence in Russia for violating Moscow's foreign agent laws, has been freed as part of a prisoner exchange, French and Russian officials said on Thursday. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

MOSCOW/PARIS, Jan 8 - Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher serving a three-year prison sentence in Russia for violating Moscow's foreign agent laws, has been freed as part of a prisoner exchange, French and Russian officials said on Thursday. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A Russian security agency says French political scholar Laurent Vinatier who was serving a three-year sentence in Russia and facing new charges of espionage has been freed in a prisoner swap with France.