Кто и как меняет особо важных заключенных? / Редакция контекст
The practice of exchanging particularly important prisoners dates back many hundreds of years and has survived to the present. More recently, American basketball player Brittney Griner, who was convicted of drug smuggling in Russia, was changed to businessman Viktor Bout — in the West he is called a "gun baron"
How are such exchanges conceived and who approves them? How do the stories of the exchange participants end?
We discussed this with an unexpected expert — Francis Gary Powers, the son of one of the most famous prisoners exchanged by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. See in the new issue of "Editorial. Context".
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