#VadimKrasikov

2025-09-28
Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.socialNorobiik@noc.social
2024-08-02

When a notorious Russian assassin and an American newspaper correspondent boarded separate planes in #Turkey on Thursday, it marked the culmination of a secretive, dramatic prisoner swap deal between #Russia and #TheWest that was years in the making. #US #Germany

#VadimKrasikov #EvanGershkovich #PaulWhelan
#AlsuKurmasheva
#AlexeiNavalny

Two years, secret talks, high stakes: How prisoner swap deal was struck
bbc.com/news/articles/c6p2p4e4

2024-08-01

The sweeping deal involved 24 prisoners & at least 6 countries, & came together after months of negotiations at the highest levels of govts in the #US, #Russia & #Germany, whose prisoner, Russian #HitMan #VadimKrasikov, emerged as the linchpin to the arrangement.

#WhiteHouse ofcls, US diplomats & personnel from the #CIA had crisscrossed #Europe & the #MiddleEast looking for friendly governments willing to release the Russian spies in their custody in return for Americans held by the #Kremlin.

2024-02-26

Maria Pevchikh said she received confirmation the talks were in the “final stages” on Feb 15, the day before #Navalny was reported dead.

Acc/to Pevchikh, Navalny & 2 #UnitedStates citizens held in #Russia were supposed to be swapped for #VadimKrasikov. He was serving a life sentence in #Germany for the 2019 killing in Berlin of Zelimkhan “Tornike” Khangoshvili, a 40-year-old Georgian citizen of Chechen descent.

#PrisonerSwap #AlexeiNavalny #assassination #Putin #murder #democracy #autocracy

Natalie Davis 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇺🇦NatalieDavis@universeodon.com
2023-09-10

Surprising exactly nobody, Russia is using WSJ reporter Gershkovich and corporate security expert Paul Whelan as bargaining chips in an effort to get one of the Russian state's many professional assassins out of a German prison.

The predictable outcome of engaging in "hostage diplomacy" with Russia: further hostage takings and further demands to return Russian state assets legitimately imprisoned in the West.

"Putin Wants His Hit Man Back

Moscow seeks the return of a covert operative serving a life sentence in Germany, possibly in exchange for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and others held by Russia"

($) 🔗: wsj.com/world/putin-wants-his-

Archive.is 🔗: archive.ph/a4Dyt

#VadimKrasikov #Putin #PaulWhelan #EvanGershkovich
#Russia #RussiaIsATerroristState

As the man entered Tiergarten park, Krasikov pedaled close behind. Not far from the swings, he pulled a pistol from a rucksack and shot him in the back, leaving his victim, a former Chechen insurgent leader, slumped on the ground. Krasikov got off his bike and calmly fired twice into the man’s head, watched by children and parents, witnesses said during a court trial that ended in his conviction.

The 2019 murder of Zemlikhan Khangoshvili, a man who Moscow alleged led a 2004 attack in Russia, was determined by a German court to be an intentionally brutal message by Russia to its enemies abroad: Even if you seek refuge in the West, we will hunt you down.

Shortly before the 2021 verdict, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his top security adviser, Nikolai Patrushev, to explore a prisoner swap to free Krasikov, said a former European official with connections to senior Russian government figures. That underscored the high value placed on Krasikov by Putin, a former KGB officer who later headed its successor agency, the Federal Security Service, or FSB.

Moscow has since brought up Krasikov’s case in prisoner-swap negotiations, according to Western officials. The officials said Krasikov is central to U.S. efforts to win the release of people held by Russia, possibly including U.S. Marine veteran Paul Whelan and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Gershkovich, a 31-year-old U.S. citizen, was detained on March 29 by the FSB while he was on a reporting assignment.
Deutsche Welle (inoffiziell)deutschewelle@squeet.me
2021-12-15
Das Urteil im Prozess um den sogenannten "Tiergartenmord" steht fest. Auf der Anklagebank saß ein russischer Staatsbürger, verurteilt wurden aber auch Präsident Putin und der russische Staat, meint Christian F. Trippe.
Meinung: Urteil im Tiergartenmord - Lebenslänglich für den Kreml? | DW | 15.12.2021
#Russland #Deutschland #Berlin #Tiergartenmord #Justiz #Urteil #VadimKrasikov #ZelimkhanKhangoschwili

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