Exchanged for the killer: the Russian Federation will release Navalny and return home Killer Krasikov - WSJ

Russian President Vladimir Putin, as a former intelligence worker, tries to save his colleagues sitting in prisons in the West. One of these colleagues was in the State Duma, the other performs the functions of Yevgeny Prigogine. Russian authorities plan to return the hired killer Vadim Krasikov, who is serving life imprisonment in Germany. To this end, the oppositionist Alexei Navalny should be included in the exchange lists, which is serving a 25-year term in the colony.

In the spring of 2023, the lawyer of the prisoner stated that he was very thin and "tightened" by poison. The details of the possible exchange were reported by The Wall Street Journal. The publication claims that the Kremlin is considering the exchange of killer for several people. In particular, they suggest that in addition to Navalny, there may be two other people: WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich and US Marine Corps Veteran Paul Wella.

It should be noted that Gershkovich was detained in March 2023 on charges of espionage, the media reported. Paul Velan was detained in 2018: the prosecution is also espionage, has a sentence - 16 years in prison. The source of information published by the publication is anonymous Western officials. It is argued that in the exchange of Vadim Krasikov, President of Russia Vladimir Putin is interested personly: he tries to "pull" special agents imprisoned for crimes committed by the Kremlin.

Vadim Krasikov is a 58-year-old Russian, who was sentenced in Germany for the murder of Chechen Zelimman Khangshvili. According to the court, he was punished by life imprisonment. At the same time, the investigation proved that he committed a crime to the order of Russian special services. The media also reports that Krasikov may be involved in the murder of businessman Albert Nazranov. However, it is not known whether the Russian authorities are considering it as a suspect in this case.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin tries to save agents who have committed crimes abroad and got into the field of view of Western law enforcement. For example, the suspect in the poisoning of the Russian expertise Oleksandr Litvinenko got into the State Duma of the Russian Federation. And the possible organizer of poisoning of the KGB expression Sergey Skripal - Andriy Aversov - also continued his career.

In particular, he may start operating in Africa instead of the dead owner of Wagner's PEC Yevgeny Prigogine. Alexei Navalny is a 47-year-old Russian whose Kremlin has sentenced several criminal cases. The man is in a colony where the trial of new accusations occurs periodically. In 2020, Navalny was suspected poisoned: he was able to take it abroad, where he received assistance from German doctors.

However, half a year after the poisoning, the man returned to the Russian Federation, where he was immediately arrested and received his first sentences. Before poisoning, the oppositionist became a known application for his anti -corruption investigation: in particular, he showed Putin's palace near Sochi. He also tried to build a political career, but the Kremlin did not allow him to become a systemic opposition. Also, Navalny did not protest against the annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Then he stated that "Crimea is not a sandwich. " In the spring of 2023, associates made a movie about him, which won the Oscar award: Ukrainians angered the decision of American cinematographers. We remind you that the media reported that the Russian Federation began to create a military base near the border with Finland, which recently became a member of NATO.