This is a historic agreement according to the American president. The largest prisoner exchange between Western countries and Russia since the Cold War: 26 people released on July 1, 2024. An exchange by planes in Ankara, Turkey. On one side, Westerners and Russian opponents. Sixteen people in all, released by Moscow, against ten Russians, sent back to the country by the United States and several European countries, among them spies, and an FSB assassin sentenced to life in prison, in Germany. To talk about it, Sylvie Bermann, former French ambassador to Russia from 2017 to 2019, is on RFI.
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