Russia prisoner swap : Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, Kara-murza freed

Russia prisoner swap : Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, Kara-murza freed

The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan, along with dissidents including Vladimir Kara-Murza, in a multinational deal that set two dozen people free.

The trade unfolded despite relations between Washington and Moscow being at their lowest point since the Cold War after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Negotiators in backchannel talks at one point explored an exchange involving Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but after his death in February ultimately stitched together a 24-person deal that required significant concessions from European allies, including the release of a Russian assassin, and secured freedom for a cluster of journalists, suspected spies, political prisoners and others.

Krasikov, a former high-ranking FSB colonel serving a life sentence in a German prison, was on the top of Moscow’s list of Russian prisoners it wanted to exchange.

US Freed:
Krasikov was convicted of the 2019 murder of the former Chechen fighter Zelimkhan “Tornike” Khangoshvili in Berlin’s Kleiner Tiergarten.

Vadim Konoshchenok, 48
Extradited to the US from Estonia earlier this month, Konoshchenok was facing charges of conspiracy over his role in a global procurement and money laundering network on behalf of the Russian government, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.

Roman Seleznev, 40 ( hopefully he says hi to k0pa )
Roman Seleznev is a convicted hacker and credit card fraudster who was serving a 27-year sentence in the US. Russian officials had previously asked for Seleznev – known as Track2, Bulba and Ncux 3 – to be part of the Griner and Bout exchange in 2022. The US agreed to that, but the deal fell apart when it was unable to offer Krasikov as well.

Artem Dultsev (age unknown)

Artem Dultsev is a Russian spy who was living undercover in Slovenia, posing as an IT businessman named Ludvig Gish.

And some other Russian spies, who nobody really cares about

Russia released:

- Evan Gershkovich,
- Vladimir Kara-Murza,
- Lilia Chanysheva,
- Ilya Yashin,
- Ksenia Fadeeva,
- Andrey Pivovarov,
- Paul Whelan
- Alsou Kurmashev,
- Oleg Orlov,
- Sasha Skochilenko,
- Dieter Voronin,
- Kevin Leake
- Rico Krieger
- Patrick Schoebel
- Herman Moizhes,
- Vadim Ostanin.

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