WSJ: Hostage-Taking Fruitful for Autocratic Regimes
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WSJ: Hostage-Taking Fruitful for Autocratic Regimes

Thursday's prisoner swap of 16 people, including three American citizens, represented another payoff for authoritarian regimes like Russia that use hostage-taking as a modus operandi to achieve their political goals, the Wall Street Journal reported.