Laurent Vinatier, had been sentenced to three years for allegedly violating Russia’s so-called ‘foreign agent’ laws.

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A French researcher serving a three-year sentence in Russia has been freed in a prisoner exchange with Moscow, French and Russian officials have said.

President Emmanuel Macron announced the release of Laurent Vinatier, who had been jailed for allegedly violating Russia’s so-called “foreign agent” laws, saying that the researcher was “free and back in France.”