Thursday, April 10, 2025

Russian-American ballerina freed by Moscow in prisoner swap

Russia released U.S.-Russian dual national Ksenia Karelina in a prisoner exchange with the United States early Thursday in Abu Dhabi, U.S. officials confirmed.

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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) later told the state-run TASS news agency that
President Vladimir Putin pardoned Karelina, adding that she was exchanged with Arthur
Petrov, a German-Russian dual national arrested in Cyprus in 2023 at the request of U.S.
authorities for allegedly exporting sensitive U.S.-made microelectronics to Russia.

#1 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-04-10 09:16 AM

She's attractive enough to be press secretary or attorney general. Too bad she was only suspected of hooliganism. That won't cut it in the modern Grand Old Perps party.

#2 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-04-11 05:14 PM

The story behind the story is the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has earned the trust of both Kiev and Moscow during the war, facilitating several prisoner exchanges as honest brokers. Yet the Trumpf junta and war criminal Putin hold their "1938 Munich-style peace conferences" in Saudi Arabia. Why? To rehabilitate the image of murderous Muhammad Bin Salman (MBS) and promote the Saudis as "good guys" on the international stage, like at the LIV golf tournament last weekend held at Trumpf's opulent Florida resort. Meanwhile the Saudis are secretly buying weapons from Russia: www.occrp.org

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-11 05:35 PM

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