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Biden Praises Slovenia PM for Role in Prisoner Swap

President Joe Biden praised Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob for his role in the recent seven-nation prisoner swap that freed Americans Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva and Paul Whelan from Russian prison. Golob was thanked for his diplomacy and leadership in facilitating the deal, which involved 24 people, many months of negotiations and concessions from other European countries.

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2 months ago

Back-to-office orders have become common. Enforcement not so much

LA Times

Since Cynthia Clemons’ employer announced last month that she was required to be in the office two days each week, the switch from remote work hasn’t been smooth. We feel very strongly about that.” Employees at the DTLA Alliance business improvement district in downtown Los Angeles do not have to follow a formal or enforced attendance policy, Executive Vice President …

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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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10 months, 1 week ago

Blinken talks to American detained in Russia, vows effort to free him

Hindustan Times

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that he spoke with Paul Whelan, a former Marine detained in Russia, as he vowed sustained efforts to free him as well as jailed journalist Evan Gershkovich. "Our intensive efforts to bring Paul home continue every single day, and they will until he and Evan Gershkovich and every other American wrongfully detained …

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1 year ago

Russian official says US is hampering a prisoner exchange with unequal demands

Associated Press

MOSCOW — A Russian deputy foreign minister said that talks with the United States on a potential prisoner exchange that would free Americans held in Russia are hampered by publicity and an alleged disparity in the U.S. negotiating stance. The U.S. State Department said last week that Russia rejected several proposals for freeing Paul Whelan, an American convicted of espionage, …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Blinken says WSJ reporter ‘wrongfully detained’ by Russia

Associated Press

BRUSSELS — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday he has “no doubt” that Russia has wrongfully detained an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal who was arrested last week on spying allegations. “But I want to make sure, as always, because there is a formal process that we go through it and we will and I expect …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Blinken says WSJ reporter 'wrongfully detained' by Russia

The Independent

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1 year, 8 months ago

Russia says 'unacceptable' for US to politicise case of detained WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich

ABC

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken it was unacceptable for Washington to politicise the case of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained and accused of spying in Russia. Key points: In a phone call between the two, Mr Lavrov warned Mr Blinken of the "need to respect the decisions" …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Blinken: Russia must immediately free 2 detained Americans

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged his Russian counterpart, in a rare phone call between the diplomats since the Ukraine war, to immediately release a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained last week as well as another imprisoned American, Paul Whelan, the State Department said Sunday. In the call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Blinken conveyed …

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2 years ago

Rail services to be crippled for a week as train drivers announce fresh strike

The Independent

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2 years ago

Brittney Griner says she’ll play basketball in Arizona again

Associated Press

Brittney Griner said she’s “grateful” to be back in the United States and plans on playing basketball again next season for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury. After months of strained negotiations, and an extraordinarily rare public revelation by the Biden administration that it had made a “substantial proposal” to bring home Griner and another detained American, Paul Whelan, the case resolved …

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2 years ago

Brittney Griner says she will return to playing basketball

Al Jazeera

In first remarks since returning to the US, WNBA star thanks all who pushed for her release from Russian prison. United States basketball star Brittney Griner, who was released from detention in Russia last week, has said she will be back on the court with her Women’s National Basketball Association team next season. The two-time Olympic gold medallist also expressed …

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2 years ago

Griner swap wasn’t all US hoped for, but what it could get

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s surprise announcement last July lacked any detail, but its meaning was crystal clear. In a rare comment on secret talks, he said the Biden administration had made a “substantial proposal” to Russia to end the imprisonment of two Americans: WNBA star Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan. “For totally illegitimate reasons, Russia is treating …

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2 years ago

Explained: Why Brittney Griner's swap isn't the deal the US wanted

Firstpost

The Joe Biden administration made a ‘substantial proposal’ to Russia to free two Americans, WNBA star Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan. In a rare comment on secret talks, he said the Biden administration had made a “substantial proposal” to Russia to end the imprisonment of two Americans: WNBA star Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan. “For totally illegitimate reasons, Russia is …

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2 years ago

Paul Whelan was left behind in Brittney Griner swap — here's why it's so hard to get him out of Russia

Raw Story

This week, President Joe Biden managed to broker a prisoner swap with Russia, allowing the release of basketball star Brittney Griner in exchange for Russia being handed Viktor Bout, an arms trafficker known as the "merchant of death." On Thursday's edition of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," reporter Andrea Mitchell detailed the key reason why it has been so hard for the …

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2 years ago

White House confirms Paul Whelan is back at Russian penal colony and 'feeling well'

Daily Mail

The White House on Friday said Paul Whelan was back at a Russian penal colony and had told consular staff he was 'feeling well,' days after triggering concern by missing a scheduled phone call with his family. But John Kirby, a national security spokesman for the White House, said he could not comment further on the 52-year-old's health out of …

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2 years ago

Former US marine imprisoned in Russia makes contact with family

Al Jazeera

Paul Whelan’s brother has confirmed the American, convicted on espionage charges, gave ‘proof of life’ in phone call. Whelan’s brother David said in a statement that the former marine called his family on Friday for the first time since November 23. “So the call at least acts as a ‘proof of life’, even if nothing else has been explained: when …

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2 years ago

US ‘deeply concerned’ about Whelan, citizen detained in Russia

Al Jazeera

The family of Paul Whelan, an American jailed on espionage charges in Russia, says they have not heard from him in days. White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Wednesday that US President Joe Biden’s administration was “deeply concerned” about the US Marine veteran, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2020 on espionage charges. “We …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Griner has begun serving sentence in Russian penal colony

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — WNBA star Brittney Griner has begun serving her nine-year sentence for drug possession at a Russian penal colony, her lawyers and agent said Thursday. Griner was transferred to a penal colony in Mordovia, about 350 kilometers east of Moscow, after a Russian court last month rejected her appeal of her sentence. The all-star center with the WNBA’s Phoenix …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Brittney Griner Begins Serving Sentence In Russian Penal Colony

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — WNBA star Brittney Griner has begun serving her nine-year sentence for drug possession at a Russian penal colony, her lawyers and agent said Thursday. Griner was transferred to a penal colony in Mordovia, about 350 kilometers east of Moscow, after a Russian court last month rejected her appeal of her sentence. The all-star center with …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Griner has begun serving sentence in Russian penal colony

LA Times

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner has begun serving her nine-year sentence for drug possession at a Russian penal colony, her lawyers and agent said Thursday, Nov. 17. WNBA star Brittney Griner has begun serving her nine-year sentence for drug possession at a Russian penal colony, her lawyers and agent said Thursday. Griner was transferred to a …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Brittney Griner faces bleak life in Russian penal colony

CNN

Reuters — Tedious manual work, poor hygiene and lack of access to medical care – such are the conditions awaiting US basketball star Brittney Griner in a Russian penal colony after she lost her appeal last week against a nine-year drug sentence. The quite cynical thing about this work is that prisoners usually sew police uniforms and uniforms for the …

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2 years, 1 month ago

U.S. embassy officials visit jailed WNBA star Griner in first access for months

The Hindu

Officials from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow met with Brittney Griner on Thursday, officials said, in the first visit in months for the WNBA star who is jailed in Russia and could soon be transferred to a penal colony. The visit was the first consular access to Griner since early August, when the two-time Olympic gold medalist was found guilty …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Biden admin has been in touch with Russia in recent days as part of efforts to secure Griner and Whelan’s release

CNN

CNN — The Biden administration has had communications with Russia to try and secure the release of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan “as recently as within past days” said a senior administration official, speaking to CNN on Griner’s 32nd birthday, which she will be spending in a Russian jail. Despite the “pretty persistent” pace of discussions between the US and …

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Biden Praises Slovenia PM for Role in Prisoner Swap

Back-to-office orders have become common. Enforcement not so much

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

Blinken talks to American detained in Russia, vows effort to free him

Russian official says US is hampering a prisoner exchange with unequal demands

Blinken says WSJ reporter ‘wrongfully detained’ by Russia

Blinken says WSJ reporter 'wrongfully detained' by Russia

Russia says 'unacceptable' for US to politicise case of detained WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich

Blinken: Russia must immediately free 2 detained Americans

Rail services to be crippled for a week as train drivers announce fresh strike

Brittney Griner says she’ll play basketball in Arizona again

Brittney Griner says she will return to playing basketball

Griner swap wasn’t all US hoped for, but what it could get

Explained: Why Brittney Griner's swap isn't the deal the US wanted

Paul Whelan was left behind in Brittney Griner swap — here's why it's so hard to get him out of Russia

White House confirms Paul Whelan is back at Russian penal colony and 'feeling well'

Former US marine imprisoned in Russia makes contact with family

US ‘deeply concerned’ about Whelan, citizen detained in Russia

Griner has begun serving sentence in Russian penal colony

Brittney Griner Begins Serving Sentence In Russian Penal Colony

Griner has begun serving sentence in Russian penal colony

Brittney Griner faces bleak life in Russian penal colony

U.S. embassy officials visit jailed WNBA star Griner in first access for months

Biden admin has been in touch with Russia in recent days as part of efforts to secure Griner and Whelan’s release