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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: pocotrader who wrote (1474427)8/1/2024 2:04:28 PM
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BREAKING Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. marine Paul Whelan have been released from jail in Russia, as part of a major prisoner swap with the US,
Awesome news. The WSJ is reporting on it (no surprise since Evan Gershkovich works for them):

WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich Is Free (WSJ)

Also a feature story from WSJ, which got released rather quickly (just confirms that the WSJ is one of the premier newspapers in the world):

Putin Wanted His Hit Man Back. A Mother Wanted Her Journalist Son to Come Home. (WSJ)

The secret negotiations to free The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich unfolded on three continents, involving spy agencies, billionaires, political power players and his fiercest advocate—his mom.

Who got released in exchange? One of them was a guy named Vadim Krasikov. From the WSJ, he was "a former intelligence officer and Russian hit man who was serving a life sentence for the murder of a rebel leader in Berlin."

Slovenia also reported that they released two RuZZian spies as part of the exchange. I couldn't tell from the article whether Krasikov is one of those two or not.

I don't know how many other RuZZian thugs were thrown into the exchange, but I doubt it's more than a dozen, maybe two dozen.

This, by the way, is a HUGE diplomatic victory for the Biden administration. Not only that, but the timing thereof couldn't have come at a better political moment for Biden and Harris.

Why PooTin didn't wait until Trump was elected is beyond me.

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