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$20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 is the number a Moscow court wants the YouTube parent company to pay for blocking Russian media outlets. It is a sum “filled with symbolism,” the Kremlin told NBC News on Thursday.

A Russian court ordered Google to pay 20 decillion for removing Russian TV channels from YouTube after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Vladimir and Evgenia Kara-Murza came to the Bush Institute on Monday to speak at a policy event for the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations and make a guest appearance on the Bush Institute’s ‘The Strategerist’ podcast.

A former Russian political prisoner and his wife are in Dallas talking about their ordeal and the future of Russia. NBC 5’s Noelle Walker sad down with the Kara-Murzas.

Vladimir and Evgenia Kara-Murza came to the Bush Institute on Monday to speak at a policy event for the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations and make a guest appearance on the Bush Institute’s ‘The Strategerist’ podcast. Beforehand, the couple sat down for a 30-minute interview with NBC 5.

Former Marine Paul Whelan said he was devastated when he learned Brittney Griner would be released from Russian detention and he would not be, NBC News reports.

The FBI said that the websites were part of a spear phishing campaign.

U.S. officials on Friday accused RT of carrying out covert information warfare operations around the world as an arm of Russia’s spy agencies.

The administration will announce a series of actions on Wednesday, two senior officials told NBC News.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has announced 92 additions to its list of Americans banned from entering the country.

Ksenia Karelina was visiting family in Russia when investigators searched her phone and found she had donated to a Ukrainian charity.

Amina Abakarova faces a possible lifetime ban and potential criminal proceedings, Russian authorities said, after the incident during a tournament last week.

Americans wrongly imprisoned in Russia have returned to the United States after a prisoner swap on Thursday. NBC 5’s Evan Anderson has the details.

Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva arrived in San Antonio, Texas, early Friday morning after being freed from Russian prisons in a mass prisoner swap.

The U.S. and Russia completed on Thursday their largest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history, a deal involving 24 people.

Thursday’s swap of 24 prisoners surpassed a deal involving 14 people that was struck in 2010.

No one understands the emotional weight of a moment like this better than the Reed family of North Texas. Their son Trevor Reed was wrongfully detained for three years in a Russian prison before being released in an exchanged. NBC 5’s Vince Sims spoke with Reed’s father on his thought about the recent swap.

Seeing Americans like Marine veteran Paul Whelan coming home after being in a Russian prison takes Joey Reed back to 2022.

The United States and Russia have completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history, with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan in a multinational deal that set some two dozen people free.

WNBA star Brittney Griner was freed from Russian custody as part of a prisoner swap, but many, including Griner’s family, were quick to point out another American name was not listed as part of the deal.