EXCLUSIVE: Shadow diplomats working with Brittney Griner's family reveal to RollingStone how the Biden administration's self-inflicted 'crisis' may have delayed Russian talks, and helped send mixed signals about how she might have come home sooner
the failing two-for-one offer to Russia at a press conference. A senior State Department official tellsthat the unusual public remark “was a considered judgment that we needed to throw out the standard playbook in order to attempt to jump-start the process.” But some diplomats saw Blinken’s move as breaking an unwritten rule of Russian relations: “You don’t negotiate on TV,” says a source close to the negotiations. “So the Russian response was as dismissive as you would expect.
Griner was sentenced to nine years on Aug. 4. “That was shocking to her,” says her other attorney, Maria Blagovolina. Griner languished, even as letters poured in from abroad. One U.S. official said the White House engaged with the Richardson center on their ideas, but a senior administration official tellsthat freelance diplomats were not officially part of the negotiations, “even if they say they are.” The senior State Department official said, “We make no apologies for doing everything we can to secure the release of our wrongfully detained citizens, even if it’s untraditional.
“Our conversations are very limited to humanitarian topics, which means that it insulates the issue of the prisoners,” Bergman says, “without bringing up the war in Ukraine and without bringing up nuclear negotiations. And that’s helpful because then we can actually experiment with some formulas of how to solve this.” Three days after their return from Russia, Biden met with Cherelle in the Oval Office at last.
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