41 sats \ 1 reply \ @MiddleWay 2 Aug \ parent \ on: Putin's Trader: How Russian hackers stole millions from U.S. investors econ
8 went home from US prisons
16 went home from Russia's
Most prisoners in Russia were political dissidents, Russian nationals, jailed after fake trials. Alexey Navalny had to be one of them, ready to be exchanged, but Putin killed him instead. Lev Yashin and Vladimir Karamurza were about to die next, but the West freed them. The rest were foreign nationals, journalists, taken hostage just for that - to be exchanged for Putin's thugs. Mafia style.