Biden’s massive Russian prisoner swap comes with major trouble for next president
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Joe Biden successfully freed some prominent prisoners including a Wall Street Journal reporter, but what next? The massive swap might encourage Putin to take more hostages.
Peter Doran is adjunct senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).
As part of the deal, Russia agreed to release former Marine Paul Whelan and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, imprisoned on false espionage charges in 2018 and 2023, respectively. Russian-American dual national Alsu Kurmasheva, a Radio Free Europe journalist sentenced to 6.5 years for supposedly "spreading false information" about the Russian military, was also freed.
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