russia seven people in the last two years that they requested that we did without any clamor, without any ranker, without any argument and according to our sense of the appropriateness of meeting their request. that's what we would hope they would reciprocate with here today. >> reporter: those seven were high level criminals. from 2007 to 2012, the u.s. at moscow's request deported more than 1700 russian citizens back to russia. more than 500 of them criminal deportations. and wolf, the irony here is there's no extradition treaty because back in the old cold war days, the united states didn't need -- did not want one fearing that they'd have to turn over dissidents to moscow. now, president putin says he doesn't want this case to hurt