'Navalny would have been freed in exchange for a Russian officer' - Breaking news. Maria Pevchikh, head of Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, confirmed that the opponent was to be released as part of a prisoner exchange with the US and Germany.
The exchange, she added, was also supposed to lead to the release of two American citizens detained in Russia in swap for Vadim Krasikov, former colonel of the Russian security services FSB.