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It is wrong to associate Russian people with the government's policies,
Many did not expect this to happen now and are still very full of the feelings associated with suddenly being able to be free after all,
They stepped up, they took a chance for us, and it mattered a lot.”
Speaking with the gathered media, Biden praised the partnership with U.S. allies, saying The toughest call in this one was for other countries,
Biden acknowledged late Thursday as the hostages and their families hugged in the background Slovenia and its intelligence agencies worked tirelessly and with great sensitivity with our allies and partners in prisoner exchange which successfully concluded yesterday, ... I would like to pay respect and compliment everyone involved in this difficult action that saved lives.”
I did not give my consent to being sent outside of Russia,
he told reporters in Bonn Look out the window, it is the last time you see your motherland. But I told him, 'I am sure that I will return to Russia — a free Russia."
Kara-Murza said when the plane departed Moscow on Thursday, his FSB guard told him There are many people in Russia who are against the war, who don't believe Kremlin propaganda,
I don't know how to do Russian politics outside of Russia, but I will try to learn,
The day will surely come when Russia will become a free, normal, civilized European country and I have absolutely no doubt that this day will come. Let us do everything in our power to bring that day closer together,
They are not only hitting us, they are also hitting our families. And they do this on purpose,
We were pulled out of prison, put on a bus, loaded onto a plane and sent to Ankara,
I don’t view [it] as a prisoner swap, I view the operation as my illegal expulsion from Russia against my will, and I say sincerely, more than anything I want now to go back home,
It’s hard for me not to think that, maybe if these processes had somehow moved quicker – if there had been less resistance – that the Scholz government had to overcome in terms of freeing Krasikov, then maybe Alexei would have been here and free,
The fact that Alexei Navalny is not with us is a crime committed by Putin, who bears direct responsibility for his murder.”
Other prisoners who have health issues should have been exchanged ahead of me,
Yashin said as he appeared to be blinking back tears It encourages Putin to take more hostages,
said Yashin, who had been serving a jail sentence for denouncing Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine I did not believe I would ever see my wife again. I did not believe I’d ever see my family again and this feels really surreal, this feels like a film,
It's hard to realize that you've been released because the killer has been released. It's difficult,
opposition figure and former Moscow city councilman Yashin said, referring to Krasikov From the first day behind bars, I said that I was not ready for exchanges. I publicly asked not to be included in the exchange lists,