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I'm your host, P broke of an extraordinary international deal.

The biggest prisoner swap since the end of the Cold War has taken place between Russia and the West.

Those who have been freed include the Wall Street Journal reporter

Evan Gerskovich and also... This is a historic moment however you look at it

politically, diplomatically, or for the families involved just emotionally.

The swap involved 26 people being held in seven different countries.

The West not only managed to secure the release of US citizens, but also of 12 Russian political prisoners.

Vladimir Karamazay, he is a man who was sentenced to 25 years for treason for condemning the war on Ukraine.

Sasha Scichelien, a Russian artist who was jailed after replacing price tags in a shop with

anti-war messages. Allegrolov, who co-chairs a Nobel winning rights group memorial the

list goes on. But these people are only a small fraction of those who have been prosecuted in Russia for opposing

Vladimir Putin. A few days before this historic moment, as the countries were finalizing the exchange, hundreds of

kilometers away in a remote jail and far east Russia, a man died in silence. He was a classical pianist, but according to Russian authorities

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