Vladimir Kara-Mourza is serving a 25-year prison sentence for treason. His wife Evguenia says she is in favor of an exchange of prisoners.
Alexeï Navalny's entourage had affirmed that an agreement with the Russian authorities to exchange him was “in progress and in its final phase’ The Russian opposition leader died last February in an Arctic penal colony. He is also in very poor health, according to his supporters, the result of two poisonings he suffered in the past.