The United States and Russia have made their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history.
Discover incredible Insider Deals that will make your life a little bit easierThis photo combination shows, in the centre, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich , and clockwise from top left are Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza , corporate security executive and former U.S.
Russia also received two alleged sleeper agents who were jailed in Slovenia, as well as three men charged by federal authorities in the U.S., including Roman Seleznev,and Vadim Konoshchenok, a suspected Russian intelligence operative accused of providing American-made electronics and ammunition to the Russian military. Norway returnedthat was struck in 2010. In that exchange, Washington freed 10 Russians living in the U.S.
Gershkovich was arrested March 29, 2023, while on a reporting trip to the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg. Authorities claimed, without offering any evidence, that he was gathering secret information for the U.S. The son of Soviet emigres who settled in New Jersey, he moved to the country in 2017 to work for The Moscow Times newspaper before being hired by the Journal in 2022.
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