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In the prisoner swap, Putin's signals that Russia won't forget its security operatives abroad

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin strode along the red carpet between two rows of rifle-toting honor guards and warmly greeted intelligence operatives freed in the biggest prisoner swap with the West since the Cold War. Putin is sending a signal that those working abroad will have maximum protection, and that if they are arrested, the state will fight for their return …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Putin’s hitman, spies and a credit card fraudster: The prisoners returned to Russia in historic swap

The Independent

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

An assassin, a Putin foe’s death, secret talks: How a sweeping US-Russia prisoner swap came together

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — It was December 2022 and the U.S. government’s chief hostage negotiator had just delivered Brittney Griner back to America after her 10-month imprisonment in Russia. President Vladimir Putin called him a “patriot,” perhaps sensing an opportunity to signal how far Russia would go to bring home anyone who might get caught acting on the country’s behalf. Speaking about …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Dissidents freed in prisoner swap vow to keep up fight against Putin, recount details of release

Associated Press

TALLINN, Estonia — When Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was suddenly moved to a detention center in Moscow from a Siberian prison, he thought he was being taken there to be shot. Still, Kara-Murza stressed that such prisoner swaps are, in effect, “the saving of people’s lives.” The death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an Arctic prison on February …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Putin ally warns freed prisoners to take 'new names and disguises'

Daily Mail

Former Russian President and close Vladimir Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev has issued a chilling warning to political dissidents freed from jails in a huge prisoner exchange with Western countries. British journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, American Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and a host of Russian citizens were released from their prison cells yesterday in return for various Russian assets jailed …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

3 newly freed Americans are back on US soil after a landmark prisoner exchange with Russia

Deccan Chronicle

Washington: The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan, along with dissidents including Vladimir Kara-Murza, in a multinational deal that set two dozen people free. Also released was Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive jailed since 2018, also on espionage charges he …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Things to know about the largest US-Russia prisoner swap in post-Soviet history

New Indian Express

WASHINGTON: The U.S. and Russia on Thursday completed their largest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history, a deal involving 24 people, many months of negotiations and concessions from other European countries who released Russians in their custody as part of the exchange. The Americans left behind Though Thursday's deal involves the most well-known of the Americans held in Russia, including two …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Who are the prisoners being released by Russia and the West?

ABC

It's believed to be the largest prisoner swap between the West and Russia since the Cold War. He was charged with spreading false information about the Russian military, following the introduction of new laws that criminalised dissent against Mr Putin's war in Ukraine. She was charged with spreading false information about Russia's military and last month was sentenced to six-and-a-half …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Gloating Putin greets Russians with hugs and kisses as they return to Moscow after complex prisoner swap with Western countries

Daily Mail

Vladimir Putin warmly welcomed Russian nationals - including a convicted killer - back to the 'motherland' with hugs and kisses after the biggest East-West prisoner exchange since the Cold War took place on Thursday. Vladimir Putin warmly embraces Vadim Krasikov, convicted by a German court of killing a Chechen dissident in Berlin The Russian despot also hugged another of the …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Things to know about the largest US-Russia prisoner swap in post-Soviet history

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The U.S. and Russia on Thursday completed their largest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history, a deal involving 24 people, many months of negotiations and concessions from other European countries who released Russians in their custody as part of the exchange. Here are some things to know: Who was freed Vice President Kamala Harris, right, looks on at Paul …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Who has been freed in Russia-West prisoner deal?

Hindustan Times

Russia and the West have released a total of 24 prisoners in the biggest exchange since the end of the Cold War, officials said on Thursday. Chanysheva, 42, who once headed late opposition leader Alexei Navalny's offices in the central Bashkortostan republic, was sentenced to seven and a half years' prison in June 2023 for having created an "extremist organisation", …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden secured Russian captives' freedom 'an hour before' he announced he was dropping out

Raw Story

President Joe Biden finalized the deal to get Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan released from Russian captivity about an hour before he announced he was ending his re-election campaign. The eventual prisoner swap that saw Gershkovich and Whelan returned to the U.S. took place five months after the death of Russian opposition leader …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Putin called him a patriot. But who is Vadim Krasikov, a Russian released in the mass prisoner swap?

Associated Press

Vadim Krasikov, the Russian at the center of Thursday’s mass prisoner swap, has long topped the Kremlin’s list for an exchange. Krasikov was convicted for the Aug. 23, 2019, killing of Zelimkhan “Tornike” Khangoshvili, a 40-year-old Georgian citizen who had fought Russian troops in Chechnya and later claimed asylum in Germany. When Krasikov was arrested, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

See the faces of evil the West is sending back to Russia in the biggest prisoner swap since the COLD WAR

Daily Mail

A hitman, a weapons dealer, and a money launderer are among eight prisoners released by the US as part of a historic prisoner swap with Moscow. The convicts were let go in exchange for the release of 16 prisoners from Russia, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US marine Paul Whelan. Vadim Krasikov, the so-called bicycle killer, …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Who’s in the massive prisoner swap between Russia and the West?

Associated Press

TALLINN, Estonia — One spent over 5½ years behind bars in Russia while other, higher-profile detainees were released ahead of him. The Prague-based editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir service was accused of not self-reporting as a “foreign agent” and was convicted in July of spreading false information about the Russian military — charges rejected by …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

3 newly freed Americans are back on US soil after a landmark prisoner exchange with Russia

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan, along with dissidents including Vladimir Kara-Murza, in a multinational deal that set two dozen people free. Vice President Kamala Harris, left, greets reporter Evan Gershkovich at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., following …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Wall Street Journal breaks its silence as reporter Evan Gershkovich is finally RELEASED by Russia in biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War

Daily Mail

The Wall Street Journal has praised the release of three Americans, including reporter Evan Gershkovich, as part of a historic prisoner swap between Russia and the US. A plane carrying American prisoners has landed in Turkey following a major swap between Russia and the US Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is among those released from prison in Russia 'That …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Evan Gershkovich among 26 freed in major Russia-West prisoner exchange

Al Jazeera

The swap, mediated by Turkey, involved 26 prisoners and seven different countries, security officials say. Russia has freed Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-US Marine Paul Whelan as part of an extensive prisoner swap between Moscow and the West, US President Joe Biden has confirmed. “Today, three American citizens and one American green-card holder who were unjustly imprisoned …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Americans released in prisoner swap with Russia are back on U.S. soil, welcomed by Biden and Harris

LA Times

This image released by the White House shows Evan Gershkovich, left, Alsu Kurmasheva, right, and Paul Whelan, second from right, and others aboard a plane Thursday after their release from Russian captivity. Soon, they’ll be wheels up, on their way home to see their family.” Sullivan called the negotiations “one of the largest and certainly one of the most complex …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Prisoner swap with Russia frees Americans including Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan

NPR

Prisoner swap with Russia frees Americans including Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan toggle caption Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images In one of the largest prisoner swaps between the United States, its allies and Russia since the end of the Cold War, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan are among more than a dozen prisoners …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

For decades, Moscow has sought to silence its critics abroad

Associated Press

From its earliest days, the Soviet Union’s intelligence services — whether known as the Cheka or by the names of any of its successor agencies like the KGB — kept the government in power by pursuing its opponents no matter where they lived. Security expert Andrei Soldatov said the work of the Kremlin’s intelligence services, then and now, has been …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

In a Secret Game of Prisoner Swaps, Putin Has Held Most of the Cards

Live Mint

There were no aides and no note-takers in the Oval Office—just President Biden and his German guest. “Putin will take more and more Americans," said Fiona Hill, who sat across the table from Russia’s president as the top Russia adviser for President Trump. The president and his national security team feared Putin would sense weakness if the U.S. started eagerly …

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9 months ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin breaks silence on rival Navalny's death in prison: ‘It happens…’

Hindustan Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin said early Monday that he supported an idea to release opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a prisoner exchange just days before the man who was his biggest foe died. Russian President Vladimir Putin In his first comments to address Navalny’s death, Putin said of the dissident’s demise: “It happens. Putin said Monday, also without offering any …

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‘Alexei Navalny supported prisoner swap for…’, Putin’s first comment on Kremlin critic’s death

Live Mint

Russian President Vladimir Putin said early Monday that he supported an idea to release late opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a prisoner exchange just days before the man who was his biggest foe died. Navalny's allies last month also said that talks with Russian and Western officials about a prisoner swap involving Navalny were underway. Putin said Monday, also without …

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In the prisoner swap, Putin's signals that Russia won't forget its security operatives abroad

Putin’s hitman, spies and a credit card fraudster: The prisoners returned to Russia in historic swap

An assassin, a Putin foe’s death, secret talks: How a sweeping US-Russia prisoner swap came together

Dissidents freed in prisoner swap vow to keep up fight against Putin, recount details of release

Putin ally warns freed prisoners to take 'new names and disguises'

3 newly freed Americans are back on US soil after a landmark prisoner exchange with Russia

Things to know about the largest US-Russia prisoner swap in post-Soviet history

Who are the prisoners being released by Russia and the West?

Gloating Putin greets Russians with hugs and kisses as they return to Moscow after complex prisoner swap with Western countries

Things to know about the largest US-Russia prisoner swap in post-Soviet history

Who has been freed in Russia-West prisoner deal?

Biden secured Russian captives' freedom 'an hour before' he announced he was dropping out

Putin called him a patriot. But who is Vadim Krasikov, a Russian released in the mass prisoner swap?

See the faces of evil the West is sending back to Russia in the biggest prisoner swap since the COLD WAR

Who’s in the massive prisoner swap between Russia and the West?

3 newly freed Americans are back on US soil after a landmark prisoner exchange with Russia

Wall Street Journal breaks its silence as reporter Evan Gershkovich is finally RELEASED by Russia in biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War

Evan Gershkovich among 26 freed in major Russia-West prisoner exchange

Americans released in prisoner swap with Russia are back on U.S. soil, welcomed by Biden and Harris

Prisoner swap with Russia frees Americans including Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan

For decades, Moscow has sought to silence its critics abroad

In a Secret Game of Prisoner Swaps, Putin Has Held Most of the Cards

Russian President Vladimir Putin breaks silence on rival Navalny's death in prison: ‘It happens…’

‘Alexei Navalny supported prisoner swap for…’, Putin’s first comment on Kremlin critic’s death