Freedom Fighters Exchanged for Murderers and Fraudsters: Media Reports on Freed Prisoners

Freedom fighters were exchanged for murderers and swindlers: the media reported on the released prisoners Maryan-Sergey Chupak

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Russia and the West have conducted the largest prisoner exchange since the Cold War. The Kremlin has handed over activists and freedom fighters to the West. In exchange, it has received killers and swindlers.

On Thursday, August 1, it became known about a prisoner exchange between Russia, the United States and Germany. Several Americans and Europeans were released from Russian prisons, including WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan.

Political prisoners are free

According to media reports, among those released from Russian prisons are:

• Ilya Yashin. Sentenced to 8 and a half years for “fakes” about the army;
• Vladimir Kara-Murza. Received 25 years on charges of treason;
• Alsu Kurmasheva. Journalist for Radio Liberty, convicted for refusing to disclose her “foreign agent” status;
• Andrei Pivovarov. Former head of Open Russia, accused of operating an undesirable organization;
• Oleg Orlov. Human rights activist, head of Memorial;
• Alexandra Skochilenko. Detained for anti-war protests;
• Liliya Chanysheva. Former head of Navalny's Ufa headquarters;
• Ksenia Fadeeva. Former head of Navalny's Tomsk headquarters;
• Rico Krieger. Former employee of the German Red Cross;
• Kevin Leake. The youngest political prisoner convicted of “treason”;
• Demuri Voronin. Political scientist, defendant in the Ivan Safronov case;
• Vadim Ostanin. Former head of Navalny's Barnaul headquarters;
• Patrick Schöbel. German citizen, arrested for possession of marijuana;
• Paul Whelan. Former Marine, convicted of espionage;
• Hermann Moijes. Lawyer, ideologist of the cycling movement.

In exchange for the release of political prisoners, Russia received killer Vadim Krasikov and other individuals detained for fraud and espionage, including GRU agents, hackers and smugglers.

We are talking about the following individuals:

• Artem and Anna Dultsev. They lived in Slovenia under the fictitious names of Ludwig Gisch and Maria Rosa Mayer Munoz. They were detained in Ljubljana. They are possibly GRU illegals.
• Pavel Rubtsov. GRU agent, posing as Spanish journalist Pablo Gonzalez. Detained on the Polish-Ukrainian border. Accused of espionage for Russia.
• Roman Seleznev. Russian hacker, sentenced in the United States to 27 years in prison for computer fraud and identity theft.
• Vladislav Klyushin. Found guilty of insider trading by a Boston court in the United States. Sentenced to 9 years in prison.
• Mikhail Mikushin. In May 2022, a court in Norway charged him with espionage.
• Vadim Konoschenkok. One of the participants in the smuggling network “Sernia”, which illegally exported high-tech equipment from the USA and supplied it to Russian state companies through EU countries.