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July 19, 20243:04 PM GMT+2Updated 5 days ago
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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who stands trial on spying
charges, is seen inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing in
Yekaterinburg, Russia June 26, 2024. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File Photo
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July 19 (Reuters) - Russia's sentencing of U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich to 16
years in a strict-regime penal colony on Friday could pave the way for a
prisoner swap with the United States.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he is open to the idea of a trade
involving the Wall Street Journal reporter and that contacts have taken place
with the United States, but the Kremlin says any deal can only be negotiated "in
silence".
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Who are the Americans detained in Russia and who are the Russians held abroad
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PRISONERS IN RUSSIA

EVAN GERSHKOVICH
Gershkovich was arrested in March 2023 in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg and
went on trial last month, accused of spying for the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) to obtain secrets about a Russian company making tanks for the war
in Ukraine. The Kremlin said he had been caught "red-handed." He, his newspaper
and the U.S. government all denied the charges. He was convicted on Friday on
day three of a trial which was closed to the press on grounds of state secrecy.
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RUSSIAN JAILED ABROAD WHO COULD BE SWAPPED

VADIM KRASIKOV
Krasikov is a Russian national serving a life sentence in a German prison for
murdering an exiled Chechen-Georgian dissident in a Berlin park in 2019. A
German judge accused Russia of state terrorism, saying the order to kill must
have come from Putin himself. Russia contests the judge's interpretation.
In a February interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson, Putin hinted
that Krasikov was the Russian prisoner he wanted swapped for Gershkovich,
referring to a person who "due to patriotic sentiments, eliminated a bandit in
one of the European capitals".

Germany has always declined to comment on reports that Russia might be seeking
to swap Krasikov for Gershkovich, as it would involve releasing a prisoner
convicted of murder on German territory for a U.S. citizen.


OTHER U.S. CITIZENS JAILED IN RUSSIA

PAUL WHELAN
A former U.S. marine holding U.S., British, Irish and Canadian citizenship,
Whelan was arrested in Russia in 2018. He was convicted of espionage in 2020 and
handed a 16-year sentence. He denied the charges.

At the time of his arrest, Whelan was head of global security for BorgWarner, a
Michigan-based car parts supplier. Russian investigators said he was a spy for
military intelligence and had been caught red-handed with a computer flash drive
containing classified information.
The U.S. invariably refers to the cases of Gershkovich and Whelan side-by-side,
saying both are being used as bargaining chips by Moscow. It has designated both
as "wrongfully detained", meaning it considers the cases politically motivated
and is committed to trying to get them home.



ALSU KURMASHEVA

Kurmasheva is a Prague-based reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
(RFE/RL), a media outlet funded by the U.S. Congress and designated by Russia as
a foreign agent.
A dual citizen of the U.S. and Russia, she was arrested in the Russian city of
Kazan in October 2023, having arrived in May to visit her elderly mother. She
was initially charged with failing to register as a foreign agent, which risks
up to five years in prison. Investigators later opened a new case against her
for spreading false information about the Russian army, which carries a sentence
of up to 15 years.


DISSIDENT JAILED IN RUSSIA

VLADIMIR KARA-MURZA
Kara-Murza is a Russian and British national who is serving a 25-year sentence
in a Siberian penal colony. He was convicted of treason last year in a case he
compared to the Stalinist show trials of the 1930s, after he repeatedly
condemned Russia's war in Ukraine and called for Western sanctions against
Moscow. Following the death of Alexei Navalny in February, he is the best-known
dissident now imprisoned in Russia. He suffers from a nerve condition after
surviving two poisoning attempts in the 2010s, and his supporters have voiced
fears for his life. Although not a U.S. national, he has connections to the
United States - he advocated for the adoption of the Magnitsky Act imposing
sanctions against individuals responsible for human rights abuses, and was a
pall-bearer at the funeral of Republican senator John McCain. Even from prison,
he has published columns in the Washington Post, for which he was awarded a
Pulitzer Prize in May.


OTHER RUSSIANS JAILED ABROAD

VLADIMIR DUNAEV
Dunaev is a Russian national who was sentenced by the United States in January
to five years and four months in prison on cybercrime charges. He was accused of
belonging to a gang that deployed a computer banking trojan and ransomware suite
of malware known as "Trickbot" and was extradited from South Korea to Ohio in
2021.


ROMAN SELEZNEV

The son of a Russian lawmaker, Seleznev was found guilty by a U.S. federal court
in Washington state in 2016 of perpetrating a cyber assault on thousands of U.S.
businesses that involved hacking into point-of-sales computers to steal credit
card numbers, resulting in $169 million in losses.
He was sentenced in 2017 to 27 years in prison, the longest ever hacking-related
sentence in the U.S. That same year Seleznev pleaded guilty to participating in
a racketeering scheme in Nevada and conspiracy to commit bank fraud in Georgia
and received a 14-year jail term for each, to run concurrently with the
Washington sentence.

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