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Russia frees American journalist Evan Gershkovich in prisoner swap after 16 months behind bars
NY Post ^ | Alex Oliveira, Olivia Land

Posted on 08/01/2024 9:02:02 AM PDT by CedarDave

Imprisoned American journalist Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan were freed from prison in Russia Thursday as part of the largest multi-country prisoner swap since the Cold War.

The Americans were among 26 prisoners from the US, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Russia, and Belarus freed as part of the prisoner exchange overseen by Turkish intelligence, Turkey’s presidency said.

Wall Street Journal reporter Gershkovich spent nearly 500 days in Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo Prison alongside serial killers and other political prisoners.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: assassin; assassinationplot; assassinationplots; evangershkovich; germany; gershkovich; hitman; khangosavili; krasikov; paulwhelan; sokolov; vadimsokolov; vladimirkrasikov; whelan; zelimkhan
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Largest prisoner swap since the end of the cold war.
1 posted on 08/01/2024 9:02:02 AM PDT by CedarDave
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Lots of TV coverage on Fox. Biden to speak from White House shortly.


2 posted on 08/01/2024 9:03:36 AM PDT by CedarDave (Pubs need to vote to widen the spread over the Dems; beat the cheat!)
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Interesting that the Quantanamo case just concluded for 3 monsters.


3 posted on 08/01/2024 9:05:27 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Gershkovich has some Russian background and fluency. From his Wiki page:

Gershkovich's parents, Ella and Mikhail Gershkovich, are Jewish immigrants who each settled in the U.S. after leaving the Soviet Union via the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program during a period of mass emigration, ending up in the United States in 1979 and eventually New York City, where they met.

The couple moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where Gershkovich and his sister grew up speaking Russian at home. Sources differ on how fluent Gershkovich is in Russian, with Gershkovich himself saying he learned most of his Russian in Moscow, an account bolstered by his colleague, The New Yorker Moscow correspondent Joshua Yaffa.

4 posted on 08/01/2024 9:07:40 AM PDT by Angelino97
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how long was the black basketball ‘female’ whatshername in prison there fore? it sure wasn’t for more than a year- the biden admin got right on that case- but this one? Meh= not so much apparently


5 posted on 08/01/2024 9:07:45 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Sacajaweau

Apparently, the reason that Putin agree to this is that the deal included many Europeans who were being held in several countries for crimes including and up to murder.


6 posted on 08/01/2024 9:10:49 AM PDT by CedarDave (Pubs need to vote to widen the spread over the Dems; beat the cheat!)
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I wonder if Evan will be again in such a hurry to collect information for US Intelligence, although I suspect he’s already been given his tickets to vacation in North Korea.

I also do have to wonder whether the Russians supplied him with ‘the other side’ regarding the Ukraine War, since the Western Media has zero interest in reporting it and prefers to leave the West thinking that it all started because Putin got up on the wrong side of the bed on Feb 24th, 2024.


7 posted on 08/01/2024 9:11:12 AM PDT by BobL
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If they dropped the charges against the Russian Troll farms from the Robert Mueller investigation in exchange it will be an outrage!!!!


8 posted on 08/01/2024 9:11:34 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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Why aren’t they reporting who the Russians got in exchange?

Seems intentional...🤔


9 posted on 08/01/2024 9:13:25 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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If this was under Trump they would call it Russian collusion.


10 posted on 08/01/2024 9:14:11 AM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands." )
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Four Russians imprisoned in the US – Alexander Vinnik, Maxim Marchenko, Vadim Konoshechenko, and Vladislav Klushin – also disappeared from the database operated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons, the RIA state news agency claimed.
11 posted on 08/01/2024 9:16:32 AM PDT by CedarDave (Pubs need to vote to widen the spread over the Dems; beat the cheat!)
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Putin exploiting Dem election optics ... Biden will waste no time taking credit for all this hard work. Putin likely made the offer to help the Dems.


12 posted on 08/01/2024 9:19:50 AM PDT by dartuser
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Biden just molested and embarrassed a 13 year old relative of an hostage and sang Happy Birthday to her.
13 posted on 08/01/2024 9:27:30 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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Biden is sniffing and hitting on one of the prisoner’s young daughters.


14 posted on 08/01/2024 9:28:19 AM PDT by Brown Deer
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Disturbing presser. Took a punch at Trump for not getting them home.


15 posted on 08/01/2024 9:31:56 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Angelino97

I would not be surprised if he actually is a spy.


16 posted on 08/01/2024 9:34:50 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Bob434

I think she did about nine months.


17 posted on 08/01/2024 9:36:32 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: TornadoAlley3

Biden asked why Trump didn’t do it, ignoring the fact that they were taken hostage while Biden was in charge!


18 posted on 08/01/2024 9:36:47 AM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: CedarDave

This is great news. The marine was released too!!!!! Thank God!


19 posted on 08/01/2024 9:38:08 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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IMO

President Trump has/had friends and contacts that accomplish great things but only when he became President again, and I believe the commie bastards found out enough to approach and offer something for no other reason than to steal President Trump's thunder.

It is most obvious they are committing scorched earth policies and in the short time left before the election, they're gonn'a rack up as many points as they can to hide their anti American hearts.

20 posted on 08/01/2024 9:40:15 AM PDT by knarf
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