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The United States submitted to Russia In recent weeks, a new proposal has emerged to exchange American Paul Whelan, convicted in Russia of espionage, and Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on similar charges. This statement was made on Tuesday, December 5, by the head of the press service of the US State Department, Matthew Miller.
According to the American representative, this proposal was “substantial”, but the Russian side did not accept it.
< p>Moscow has not yet commented new initiatives of the American side regarding the exchange of prisoners.
Meanwhile, there was an incident with the American Paul Whelan, convicted in Russia: in the colony, according to Whelan himself, he was attacked by a 50-year-old Turkish prisoner with “anti-American views”. The other captives intervened and stopped the conflict.
At the same time, Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said that Russia demands that the United States stop hunting Russians in other countries, and considers the return to their homeland of all fellow citizens held in American prisons. prisons.