Russia, US hold largest post-cold war prisoner swap | ANC

On The Scene: U.S. President Joe Biden announced the release of journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan by Russia on Thursday (August 1) as part of the biggest East-West prisoner exchange since the end of the Cold War, a complex deal negotiated in secrecy for more than a year. Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty who was convicted in unusual haste in a secret trial on the same day as Gershkovich and was sentenced to 6-1/2 years in prison for violating Russian laws on "military fakes" in connection with a book she edited about Ukraine, was also freed. The White House said the U.S. had negotiated the complex trade with Russia and other countries. It said eight prisoners held in the West were being sent back to Russia.
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[@lastChang]

Putin is taking a page from the Chinese 🇨🇳 book about arbitrary detention for bargaining.

[@craftcorner-kw2xs]

The Russians had red carpet and flowers for its people.

[@MouminHersi]

Grand bravo poutine gloire la grand russie