INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Opposition figures Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Kara-Murza and Andrei Pivovarov, who were released this week as part of the largest prisoner
exchange between Russia and the West since the Cold War, held a press conference in Bonn, Germany on Friday at the office of German news
pro-democracy group Open Russia, thanked everyone who was involved in negotiations for the release of political prisoners, including German
Yesterday I was at the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center
of 24 prisoners were exchanged at an airport in the Turkish capital Ankara on Thursday following long negotiations between Moscow and
Washington, as well as other Western governments including Germany.Among the Russian nationals released from prison were Memorial co-founder
Oleg Orlov, former Navalny coordinators Lilia Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeyeva and Vadim Ostanin, as well as artist Sasha Skochilenko
So, too, were dual Russian-German citizens Herman Moyzhes and Kevin Lik freed in the exchange.Andrei Pivovarov.Kateryna ShenheliiaMoscow, in
its turn, received eight of its citizens, including Vadim Krasikov, a Federal Security Service (FSB) operative who was serving a life
first day behind bars, I said that I was not ready for exchanges
opposition figure, FSB officials told him right before leaving that if he ever tried returning, Russia would not engage in any further
You can be arrested like Navalny
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