Prisoner Exchange?

Update: I woke up to the news. Here is the list of people exchanged in the US. It’s a multi-party exchange reminiscent of the Cold War.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan. They also include Alsu Kurmasheva and Vladimir Kara-Muza.

Welcome home, all.

I am going to keep this short today. But we may start hearing of a prisoner exchange in the next few weeks. Over the last forty-eight hours, a few Russian telegram channels have been reporting in this vein. This is just the latest:

Political prisoners were advised to prepare petitions for pardon. This confirms the version about the authorities’ intention to exchange some of them

“ I have confirmation that there may be an exchange. Yesterday I was informed that some of the political prisoners were asked to write a petition for pardon addressed to Putin, and this was done . This may indirectly prove that an exchange or pardon is really being prepared,” said political scientist (and foreign agent) Abbas Gallyamov on the “Air” program on Khodorkovsky LIVE.

The version about the impending exchange ( possibly for collaborators sitting in Ukraine ) was expressed in a conversation with “MO” by human rights activist Olga Romanova and lawyer Ivan Pavlov. “ It is obvious that a large-scale exchange is…