Taylor Dudley, 35, was detained in April 2022 after he crossed from Poland into Kaliningrad — a detached exclave of Russian territory between Poland and Lithuania.
Taylor Dudley’s detention was not widely publicized as his family wished to keep negotiations private.Advertisement
Richardson confirmed the release to CNN, and acknowledged the work of the US State Department and the embassy in Warsaw in getting Dudley out of Russian custody. “After six months of intensive work, it’s great to see this release of Taylor Dudley happen,” he said. “We worked it hard in Moscow and Kaliningrad and first raised it during our meetings with Russian officials on Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed.”
Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s Richardson Center for Global Engagement brokered Dudley’s release.Griner, a WNBA star convicted in a Russian court for bringing cannabis oil through a Moscow airport in February, was released late last year in aDudley’s detention had not been classified “wrongful” by the US State Department. His detention was also not widely publicized as his family wished to keep negotiations private.
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