Irish passport holder Paul Whelan among those released along with journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva
US President Joe Biden and vice-president Kamala Harris greet Irish passport holder and former US marine Paul Whelan after he arrived in the US following a 26-person prisoner swap between Russia , the US and five other countries at Andrews Air Base, Maryland.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich hugs his mother, Ella Milman, after his arrival in the US. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA Kurmasheva, who was arrested on charges of failing to register herself as a foreign agent and then charged with spreading false information about the Russian military, had been sentenced to more than six years in prison. The Radio Free Europe journalist was met by her husband, Pavel Baturin, and her two children, Bibi and Miriam.
The Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin and several other opposition figures were also freed, including the British-Russian politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and three people who had worked as regional coordinators for the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison earlier this year. Navalnaya thanked Harris for the US assistance and called on the international community to facilitate the release of other Russian political prisoners, Yarmysh said.Speaking at Cologne airport, Scholz insisted the swap was “the right decision, and if you had any doubts, you will lose them after talking to those who are now free”.
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