The drug smuggling conviction in Russia of US basketball star Brittney Griner has again raised the question of a prisoner exchange between Moscow and Washington
The US says it will"pursue" Russia's latest offer to discuss the prisoner swap involving detained basketball star Brittney Griner.Russia is ready to discuss prisoner exchange with the US, but it should be at the level of presidents, the country's foreign minister has said.
"[Russian] Foreign Minister Lavrov said this morning... that they are prepared to engage" on a swap for the detained American, Blinken said at a foreign ministers' meeting in Cambodia. "And we'll be pursuing that."Moscow's latest offer came a day after Phoenix Mercury player Brittney Griner was sentenced by a Russian court to nine years in a penal colony on a drug smuggling charge.
Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout was in 2012 sentenced to 25 years in a US jail after he was accused of arming rebels in some of the world's bloodiest conflicts.The former Soviet air force officer and polyglot was arrested in Thailand in 2008 during a sting operation in which US agents posed as Colombia's FARC rebels seeking weapons.
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