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Khrushchev's great-granddaughter on Steve Hubbard's release, Witkoff calling Putin a humanitarian

CBS News21 October 2026, 15:57 UTCRussia

Russia freed an American citizen it had detained for years after U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the future of the Ukraine war. Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and a professor of international affairs at The New School, weighs in.

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