Talks began years before in meeting between Biden and Putin about release of Russian opposition leader

At Cologne airport on Thursday evening, a group of associates of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gathered waiting for a plane to arrive from Ankara. On board were 13 people who, until that morning, had been incarcerated in Russian prisons, including three people who had worked as Navalny’s regional coordinators in various Russian cities and had been jailed for “extremism”.

After a swap in Turkey , they were now free, along with Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and two other Americans, who were headed back home on a separate plane.

Talks began years before in meeting between Biden and Putin about release of Russian opposition leader

At Cologne airport on Thursday evening, a group of associates of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gathered waiting for a plane to arrive from Ankara. On board were 13 people who, until that morning, had been incarcerated in Russian prisons, including three people who had worked as Navalny’s regional coordinators in various Russian cities and had been jailed for “extremism”.

After a swap in Turkey , they were now free, along with Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and two other Americans, who were headed back home on a separate plane.

Talks began years before in meeting between Biden and Putin about release of Russian opposition leader

At Cologne airport on Thursday evening, a group of associates of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gathered waiting for a plane to arrive from Ankara. On board were 13 people who, until that morning, had been incarcerated in Russian prisons, including three people who had worked as Navalny’s regional coordinators in various Russian cities and had been jailed for “extremism”.

After a swap in Turkey , they were now free, along with Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and two other Americans, who were headed back home on a separate plane.