Alexei Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalny, said today that she feels both joy and bitterness over the Cold War-style prisoner swap that freed prominent Russian dissidents last week, nearly six months after he was killed in an Arctic prison colony. Yulia Navalnaya said her husband, if alive, was to be part of a deal in which Russia handed over the dissidents, along with American and German nationals, in exchange for convicted Russian murderer Vadim Krashikov and other Russians held in its prisons West. Navalny’s supporters said shortly after his death on February 16 that he was close to being involved in an exchange with Krashikov, a member of Russia’s FSB security service who was serving a life sentence in Germany for killing a former Chechen fighter. “At the time many thought it was impossible, that we had made it up. But now everything is absolutely clear,” said Navalnaya […]
Source: News Beast
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