Whom Putin exchanged in power in power

Remember the most loud cases

The last few days, everyone has been expected to exchange prisoners between Russia and the USA, as well as, possibly, between Germany and Belarus. This will be the first so large -scale operation in recent years. Probably, at least seven Russian political prisoners can have pardoned - it was so many classified decrees that Vladimir Putin issued.

Novyevropa recalls who has already been exchanged under Putin as president.

Exchange of Savchenko for Erofeev and Alexandrov

On May 25, 2016, the exchange of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko for Russians Alexander Alexandrov and Evgeny Erofeev took place. The day before, Putin pardoned Savchenko with his decree.

The pilot was captured in July 2014, she was accused of the murder of Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin in the Luhansk region in the summer of 2014. Savchenko did not admit guilt. As a result, the court sentenced her to 22 years in prison.

Erofeev and Alexandrov was detained in 2015 in the territory of the Luhansk region. They were injured in battle and introduced themselves as a sergeant of the Russian army and the captain of the GRU of the Russian Federation. Later they changed the testimony and claimed that they voluntarily went to serve in the police of the "Luhansk People's Republic." The Ukrainian court found both guilty in the conduct of an aggressive war, the assistance of the terrorist organization, the attack and the use of weapons to provoke a military conflict. They were sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Exchange of Afanasyev and Soloshenko for Gloshchinskaya and Didenko

On June 14, 2016, Gennady Afanasyev and Yuri Soloshenko, convicted in Russia of Ukraine, were exchanged for Ukrainians Elena Glishchinskaya and Vitaly Didenko. The first two left for Kyiv, and the latter to Moscow.

Glishchinskaya and Didenko were reaped in April 2015 and accused of separatism and Gosizman. At that time, the Glishchinskaya was the head of the New Wave television company and the assistant to the People’s Deputy of Ukraine Vitaly Barwinenko, and Didenko was the chief expense of the Odessa publication “Information Center”. According to investigators, they organized the movement "The People's Rada of Bessarabia." Didenko was also accused of storing and selling drugs, and as a result, they were sentenced to three years in prison. Glishchinskaya in a pre-trial detention center gave birth to a child, she was released from custody in connection with a state of health. Both journalists did not plead guilty, and after pardon they left to live in Russia

Afanasyev was detained on May 9, 2014 in the Crimean Terrorist case. He was accused of arson of the building of the “Russian community of Crimea”, the preparation of the explosions of the monument to Lenin on the station Square Simferopol and the Memorial “Eternal Flame”. The court sentenced him to seven years in prison.

Soloshenko was detained in August 2014 for Spying. The details of the case were not disclosed, and from the biography of the businessman it was known that he headed the Poltava defense plant “Banner” for 20 years. The court sentenced him to six years in the colony. Already during the serving of a sentence, an oncological disease was revealed from the prisoner.

Exchange 35 by 35

In 2019, Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners according to the formula “35 by 35”. The former head of the RIA Novosti-Ukraine news agency Kirill Vyshinsky, detained on charges of treason, returned to Russia. Ukraine also returned the participants of anti -Ukrainian rallies in Odessa, the military “LPR” and “DPR” and other citizens detained for “espionage” and “participation in illegal armed groups”.

Russia freed the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who in August 2015 sentenced him to 20 years in a maximum regime colony on charges of terrorism. In the same case, an exchange participant Alexander Kolchenko took place. Sailors of Nikopol, Berdyansk and Yana Kapu, detained in 2018 on charges of illegally crossing the border, also returned to Ukraine.

Bota exchange for grainer

In December 2022, the American basketball player Britney Grainer, convicted in the Russian Federation in the case of drug smuggling, was exchanged for Russian Viktor Buta.

The two -time Olympic champion of the United States was detained at Sheremetyevo Airport after in its hand luggage were found for vape with hash oil. She was found guilty of storage and smuggling of drugs, and then sentenced to a fine of 1 million rubles and 9 years in the colony.

Buta was detained in Thailand in 2008, and then extradited to the United States. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges of criminal conspiracy to kill US officials, the purchase and delivery of anti -aircraft missiles, as well as a complication of a terrorist organization. The Federal Court of New York also ordered him to pay a fine of $ 15 million.