The US and Russia prepare a major prisoner exchange

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2024-07-31 20:59:38

In the last 72 hours, Russia has moved about one dozens of political prisoners within their borders. The United States, for its part, deleted information on some Russian prisoner imprisoned in their area. Everything seems to show that both states are preparing for himn change of cards. This was published this Wednesday by the Slovenian media N1, which said that the exchange will take place soon. No government has yet made any statement regarding this information. Central European media say they have reliable sources to publish this information, in addition to saying that there are different countries that are in addition to the two powers, as in the case of Germany and Belarus.

Among the list of those who are susceptible to exchange are important names of Russian assassins as well as government activists Ilya Yashin y Vladimir Kara-Murzá (foreign agents noticed by the Russian authorities), former leaders of the Aleksei Navalny Anti-Corruption Fund organization (considered an extremist organization by Russia) Lilia Chanishev y Ksenia Fadeevathe artists Sasha Skochilenko and Daniil Crinari; Chief Executive Officer of the Memorial (foreign representative in Moscow) Oleg Orlov; journalist Maria Ponomarenko and Kevin Lik, 19 years old. The last owner of this profile was a Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, although for now it is unknown if it will be part of this exchange. This information was recently judged by the professor 16 years in prison for espionage charges, which he himself denied. Most of them entered prison after 2022, the year in which the repression in Russia worsened after the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war, many of them with sentences of more than 10 years with charges such as reject the Russian army or rebellion.

Back to Russia

Among those who are likely to return to the Eurasian country are names like Vadim Krasikov, Alexander Vinnik, Maxim Marchenko, Vadim Konoshchenko, Vladislav Klyushin, Roman Seleznev and Vladimir Dunaev.. Krasikov, the first of them, is an FSB agent convicted in Germany for the murder of a Chechen devotee. Vinnik, Klyushin, Seleznev, were hackers and they were accused various crimes related to computer science and money laundering. Marchenko and Konoschenko, on their part, were accused of torture.

The last to return to Moscow through a prisoner exchange was the so-called ‘merchant of death’, Viktor Bout, who upon arrival was hailed as a hero and shortly after returning to Russia he joined the ranks of the ultra-nationalist Liberal-Democratic Party. At that time the American back home was a basketball player Brittney Grinerwho was imprisoned for drug possession.

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