Between Russia, USA, Germany, Slovenia, Norway, Belarus and, through the mediation of Turkey, a large -scale exchange of prisoners took place Photo: Russian aircraft Tu-204-300 is preparing to land in Ankara on August 1, 2024. Türkiye coordinated in Ankara the exchange of twenty prisoners between Russia and a number of Western countries. Photo: Caglar / AFP / East News Several political prisoners have disappeared from Russian prisons and investigative insulators in the last days.