Wall Street Journal calls for US policy change on hostage takers after Gershkovich release: ‘Pay a price’

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The Americans floated a proposal: an exchange of two dozen prisoners sitting in jails in Russia, the United States and scattered across Europe, a far bigger and more complex deal than either side had previously contemplated but one that would give both Moscow and Western nations more reasons to say yes.
Deccan Herald
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US journalist Evan Gershkovich and a Russian intelligence colonel jailed for a Berlin murder were among two dozen prisoners freed Thursday in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War.
The News International
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Thursday's prisoner swap of 16 people, including three American citizens, represented another payoff for authoritarian regimes like Russia that use hostage-taking as a modus operandi to achieve their political goals, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Newsmax
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In the largest prisoner exchange since the height of the Cold War, officials of the United States, Russia, Germany and other countries met on an airfield in Ankara, Turkey, on Thursday and swapped at least 24 people — capping months of painstaking diplomacy involving negotiations at the highest levels of nine governments.
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