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(6) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Put in says he has met the Russian agents recently deported from the U. S. — and claimed they were living "tough lives" and had been "betrayed". He told journalists that he had sung Soviet-era patriotic songs with the agents. However, Mr. Put in did not say where the meeting took place. (6) The 10 Russians admitted in a U. S. court earlier this month to being agents for a foreign country. More serious money laundering charges against them were dropped. They were then flown to Vienna, where a Russian jet carrying four prisoners freed by Russia arrived around the same time—in what was America’s biggest spy swap with Russia since the Cold War.