On December 9, Moscow and Washington held an exchange of prisoners. Russian Viktor Bout returns to Russia, and American basketball player Brittney Griner went to the United States.
Victor Bout returned to his homeland after 14 years in prison in the United States. He was arrested in 2008 in Thailand at the request of the United States. He was accused of illegal arms trafficking and supporting terrorism. In 2010, Bout was extradited to the United States, in 2012, the court sentenced him to 25 years in prison. The Russian did not admit his guilt.
He was exchanged to Brittney Griner who is a two—time Olympic champion and what is not less important, she is a lesbian. Since 2015 she has played for the Russian club in Yekaterinburg. In February, 2022, she was detained at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport with cartridges for vapes with hashish oil in her hand luggage. The basketball player claimed that a doctor prescribed cannabis to her. The Russian court sentenced Griner to nine years in prison for drug smuggling. In November, she was transferred from the pre-trial detention center to a colony.
This exchange is an important Russian victory.
The exchange took place on December 9 at Abu Dhabi airport. The Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, clarified that the UAE capital was chosen for the exchange for reasons of convenience of logistics.
Both Bout and Griner were pardoned by Washington and Moscow. They will not serve the rest of their sentences.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, said on Twitter that he had talked to Griner, she was fine, and she was on her way home.
Mr Bout came to Moscow at night.
The successful exchange was the culmination of intense negotiations that have been going on for the past few weeks.
The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Washington categorically refused to engage in a dialogue on the exchange of Mr Bout for a long time.
“As a result of the efforts made, it was possible to agree with the American side on the organization of the exchange of V.A. Bout for B. Griner,” the report reads. “A Russian citizen has been returned to his homeland.”
On November 19, White House press Secretary said that the Russian authorities had not conducted serious negotiations on prisoners in recent months.
The last prisoners exchange between Russia and the United States took place in April. The Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko was exchanged for a US student Trevor Reed.
On July 28, CNN published an article based on the Biden administration’s statement that the White House had previously sent a substantial proposal to Moscow to exchange Viktor Bout for Paul Whelan, who is serving a 16-year sentence in Russia for espionage, and basketball player Brittney Griner.
Mr Bout is obviously a more valuable person that the basketball player. Despite the fact that he has been in an American prison for a very long time and could provide no more valuable information if he had any, Washington did not agree to launch any negotiations on his release and exchange for years. Victor Bout became an important symbol not only in Russia but worldwide. He became a valuable figure in the global politics. During his time in US prison, Bout even became an authoritative leader among American prisoners.
Russia has been seeking the release of Viktor Bout for almost 15 years.
The return of Griner is presented as a big victory for the US. The sex, colour of the skin and sexual preferences of Brittney Griner became a lifebuoy for President Biden, whose popularity is fading. Immediately she was sentenced in Russia, the Western media made Griner another symbol of Western values. Griner was seen on the front pages of newspapers for a long time.
The case of the second US prisoner Paul Whelan convicted of espionage in Russia already lost its popularity in the US. However, in fact he is a more valuable figure than Griner. The American side could not offer the Russians a prisoner worthy of an exchange for Whelan.
After the exchange of Bout for Griner, US President Joe Biden said that Washington had not forgotten about Whelan and was working on his release. That is a clear sign that the US team lost the bargaining.
In his turn, Paul Whelan told CNN that the administration of US President Joe Biden did not make enough efforts to free him. “I am very disappointed that more has not been done for my release”
Whelan was detained in Moscow in December 2018. He was charged for espionage. According to investigators, Whelan worked for US intelligence services: as an intelligence officer, he collected secret information in Russia and tried to recruit FSB and Defense Ministry employees. Whelan pleaded not guilty. In the summer of 2020, he was sentenced to 16 years of strict regime.
Paul Whelan’s lawyer admitted that his client could be exchanged within one to two months, NBC reports.
At the same time, the decision to exchange Bout for Griner from the Russian side may be a signal that the parties may be ready for negotiations on a wider range of issues of mutual interest. This may entail a dialogue between Russia and the United States on some security issues or on other aspects of relations that go beyond the exchange of their citizens.
That’s a MAN, baby !!!!
The nigger with a dick is a lesbian. Only in nigger land USA 😆😆😆
I am so happy to see whites killing each other in Ukraine. So happy indeed. I tuned in everyday to see pig skins slaughtering each, it’s like streaming a show, love it ; )
Why pig skins? Reffering to colour of white people skin? Let me remind you that in southern Europe there is well known breed of black skinned pig, this is an old variety, called mangulica. So should we, members of the white race use the nickname/code “mangulica” for blacks, especially those of BLM background? For example, massacre of Tootsi and Hotu people in Ruwanda to be called mangulicas slaughtering eachother?
Do what you like. All I know is I am happy you white or should I say pink, pig skin animals are slaughtering each other. Long may it continue, hahaha.
Grow to fuck up … you fucking idiot
Stop your vile racist language.
You are one racist cunt
Being “racist” is cool! Unlike you, who is gay!
Stupid skinhead. Full of hate. Keep your bile where it is….deep in your arse
In the Nigggerland, nigger just means criminal. And as all criminals, they always get hysterically offended when they are called criminals.
Hoodrat is a hoodrat, no matter how you dice the rat. They all squeal and rat everybody out the moment they are in jail.
I’m just so happy you pig skins are slaughtering each other. Hahahaha. Fucking idiots.
Exactly. Fuck white people.
WHITES KILLING EACH OTHER. Hahaha
Exactly, that’s not a lesbian but someone born as a male.
Political America only negotiated when the Russians played the same game they play.
Indeed several Russian citizens have been kidnapped from third countries and turned over to the American Regime,they don’t like it when others play by the same rules.
I must say bravo to president Biden. That was a good trade. Hopefully William Assange can be given a full pardon and be part of a future trade. I would love for him to expose all the war crimes commited by the Zionist slaves politicians and their treasonous Israel-first dumb military Goyim cannon fodders.
Brit knee is a man.
They let the wrong spook go. Free Paul Whelan.
Why would they free him? Because he was spying for the good guys?
“Prisoner of conscience”…
That guy is literally the guy in the movie “Lord of War”. The whole movie is based on his life. He’s a shameless war profiteer and major criminal.
Not that the CIA is any better! But this is a bad guy.
He is the one that gave an insight into that arm trade so he is not a bad guy after all, he warned the world about what was going on.
Is he? its a movie and fiction,we just don’t know enough about the guy,what crime was he guilty of in the US? if it was being a arms dealer there are many arms dealers in the world the US government are the biggest,he was guilty of being a Russian thats it.
The guy actually helped some “agency” and “contractors” from every government around the globe to discard their old stock “where it was needed”. A true libertarian, a real Ann Rand legacy , the spirit of ‘murica. Why was he put on jail by them again ?
Griner is trans man. Why would the Russians allow her to stink up their prisons with her non human filth?
A victory for the free and civilised Western world against Russia’s suppression and aggressive male dominance over LGBT minorities.
Lay off the glue
satire–😂😂😂😂
I’d say that actual males and actual females are exposed to overly aggressive dyke, faggot, sissy and the rest of the psychiatric cases “minorities” who are nothing but a political movement supported by globalist banksters. People with psychiatric issues are chosen for globalist flagships. That says much of globalists.
And non existence minorities, just to create divide and conquer.
Both of them are heroes. One of the smuggled arms, the other drugs.
Hahahahahaha
People of color lol. White is also a color and Griner is mixed not black.
Black and white are not colors.
Griner is mixed with a lot of ink 🤣
Griner secretly likes dick
9 years in prison for “vapes with hashish oil”.
And “The…colour of the skin” as if Russians don’t care about colour of peoples skin colour…you whites are ALL the same, just a bunch of nazis.
moron packuda
I’ve never seen a culture more relaxed about color and race as they are in Russia. Mongols, blacks, blondes, redheads, name it and you will find them in Russia and nobody makes a big deal out of it.
LOL many Russians are not white either but good idiot you are
Fentanyl Floyd, now 2 1/2 years sober and free of crime!
More like the nigger is roids free for 2.5 years. Roids make niggers agressive to the bitter end. Only dead nigger is a good nigger.
What idiot you are
If you keep sticking your nigger dick everywhere – your dick gets chopped of. Simple as that.
Come on, guys, who the fuck cares about sexual preferences of Griner!?
Russia should have give her away for free because she eats so much, supporting her diet is a burden for any country!
I hope mr. Bout will come with an interesting speech, soon.
Russia will give Whelan up for a used bus ticket because Russia is absolutely shite at negotiations and always over-pay and under value their own assets and position. Time and time again they give up US and other western prisoners who have only just been caught for Russian who have nearly served a full sentence. The Western governments know this and never fail to rub Russias nose in the shit when they get a chance. Which is quite regular because nobody takes them serious at negotiating.
The recent gift of handing back Western Mercs killing for Ukraine a prime example
Biden gets to promote his LGBTQ agenda and an FBI victim is set free.. a much better future for both of them ….I wish them well
The USSAN man thing goes back to Slumville. Russia must be relieved to rid itself of this freakish transgendermutant retard tatted thing.
Z
She is not trans.
US the main LGBTQ state . will always sacrifice their main man . but will make sure people like lesbian gay . athiest terrorist they will save them first
The United States is in bad shape. And the situation keeps getting worse. Good thing they’re dying! Thank you!
Did anyone else notice the US didn’t go after Russian Jewish arms dealers like semyon Mogdelevich or Vadim Rabinovich?
Idk if Bout is Jewish. It said on Wikipedia he is Ukrainian. Though he could be from the Russian part of Ukraine.
I would say that it’s fairly obvious that the Russian admin do not want american freak shows in their country and will exchange american trash for anything they can get for it. Why should other countries and people have to deal with american fuckups?
Viktor Bout Free at last Free at last thank God Free at last …….
US woke hero, BLM, LGBT, abortion, drug trafficking, anything (your soul) for profit, distraction of bread and circus, in exchange for whistleblower, victim of ‘rendition’, with unique intel on Ukraine ops, they say politics is symbolic.
She’s a TRANSGENDER, not a lesbian, obviously! You’re becoming as stupid as the Americans !!!
all americunt lgbt trannies