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US teacher returns home after being freed by Russia

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Marc Fogel, speaks in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. [VOA]

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed American teacher Marc Fogel to the White House late Tuesday after Fogel was freed from Russia where he had been detained since August 2021 for bringing medically prescribed marijuana into the country.

"I feel like the luckiest man on Earth right now," Fogel said as he stood next to Trump.

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