The head of Britain's foreign intelligence agency has thanked Russian state television for encouraging Russians to spy for the U.K. after it broadcast part of a speech he gave calling on Russians to join hands with British intelligence.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says more U.S.-Russian prisoner exchanges are possible.

Ghislaine Maxwell is off to Florida to serve a 20-year prison sentence for helping financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.

Some Russian prisons might be mistaken for vacation destinations based on their nicknames, which include animal appellations such as the Black Dolphin and the Polar Owl.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has lost a substantial amount of weight in custody, his organization says.

CNN VideoMIAMI, Fla. - A Russian woman charged with interfering in the 2016 presidential election is making a stop in Miami before being deported to Russia on Friday, officials said. Maria Butina, 30, was released Friday morning into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations custody en route to a Miami migration center before boarding a Moscow-bound flight the same day, officials said. Butina spent the last 15 months in a Tallahassee, Florida, federal prison after she pleaded guilty to working as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. The American University graduate was the first Russian person charged with crimes related to foreign meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Copyright 2019 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.

It has not been verified by the agencies, and spokespeople for the Justice Department and FBI declined to comment. A US official told CNN on Thursday that Byrne met earlier this year with Justice Department officials and shared with them similar information about a romantic relationship with Butina encouraged by the FBI. 'We are the good guys, we don't work like the bad guys, but we need to ask you to rekindle a romantic relationship with Maria Butina.' But she said she was skeptical about his claim that the bureau later encouraged him to have a "romantic relationship" with Butina. But if the FBI had asked him to have a romantic relationship, "that to me seems incredibly suspect only because there is a lot of legal liability that's involved with that.