Putin welcomes home hostages on Aug. 1

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Vladimir Putin welcomes home Russian's as part of a prisoner exchange with the US on August 1. The swap, which took place on the airport tarmac in Ankara, included two dozen people, 16 going to the West and eight being returned to Russia. Among them were other American citizens as well as Russians convicted of crimes and imprisoned in the US, Germany, Poland, Norway and Slovenia.