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Kremlin acknowledges intelligence operatives among the Russians who were freed in swap

The Independent

The Independent

Summary

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In one of the biggest and most complex prisoner swaps since the Cold War, two dozen Americans, Germans and Russian dissidents were released in exchange for eight Russians imprisoned in five different countries.
Politico
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Maria Kalesnikava, part of an alliance that inflicted the severest electoral blow to Belarusian strongman President Alexander Lukashenko in his three-decade rule, has been in jail since September 2020.
The Gazette
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Moscow, in its turn, received eight of its citizens, including Vadim Krasikov, a Federal Security Service (FSB) operative who was serving a life sentence in Germany for the 2019 killing of a former Chechen rebel.
The Moscow Times
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Germany would probably have preferred to play no role in the complex, multi-country deal that saw the release of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, and 15 other prisoners from Russian and Belarusian jails.
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Eastern District of New York | Suspected Russian Intelligence Operative Extradited from Estonia to Face Charges Related to Providing American-Made Electronics and Ammunition to Russian Military | United States Department of Justice
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