The inside story of the deal that freed US journalist Evan Gershkovich in historic prisoner swap... and how Putin critic Alexei Navalny could have been part of the exchange before his death in Russian prison, writes MARK NICOL

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The inside story of the deal that freed US journalist Evan Gershkovich in historic prisoner swap... and how Putin critic Alexei Navalny could have been part of the exchange before his death in Russian prison, writes MARK NICOL

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Even seasoned observers of geopolitics were taken by surprise. But behind the scenes, months of nail-bitingly tense negotiations, near misses and fraught moral compromises had been playing out in the run-up to the largest East-West prisoner swap for decades. Not since the Cold War, when secret agents and political prisoners would be routinely exchanged on Berlin's Bridge of Spies, have so many captives been traded. The remarkably complex deal, which saw 24 inmates freed from prisons in seven countries, had previously collapsed and was in doubt until just before it was sealed.
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