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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan, and several dissidents were freed from Russia on Thursday as part of an agreement between at least six countries involving at least 24 prisoners.

USA Today

The US, Russia, Germany, Norway, Slovenia, and Poland all agreed to release prisoners in a deal US Pres. Joe Biden in a statement called "a powerful example of why it's vital to have friends in this world whom you can trust and depend upon."

Whelan had been wrongfully detained by Russia since Dec. 2018 on espionage charges that both the Biden and Trump administrations denied. Gershkovich was similarly arrested in March 2023.

ABC news

Among those Russia received was Vadim Krasikov, who was convicted of the 2019 killing of a former Chechen rebel in a park in Germany, allegedly under orders from the Russian government; two alleged sleeper agents, who were jailed in Slovenia; and three men charged by US authorities for spywork.

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This deal was conceived over years of back-channel negotiations with Russia's war against Ukraine as a backdrop. Although the US and Russia have agreed to several prisoner swaps in recent years, this is the first that needed cooperation from other countries.

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While the swap was celebrated by most, it did also raise concerns in certain circles that the West was trading rightfully charged criminals for dissidents, journalists, and others who were convicted under suspicious circumstances by politicized Russian courts.

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