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This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

Good news. The report is that Evan Gerskovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who's been abused and detained

by the Russian authorities, is to be part of an exchange of prisoners between the

US and Russia involving civil rights advocates on the side of the Americans and

unknown agents on the side of the Russians. However, the conversation is

positive and we learn in the course of this reporting that the conversation has been underway for some time and that Mr.

Navalny was part of this conversation at one point, but his mysterious and sudden death in the wintertime

took him out of the formula still Gershkovich is coming home and I welcome Anatole

Leaven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible State Craft.

To help me understand, is this a positive in the Cold War fashion?

Now and again we exchange spies at the bridge in Berlin at the edge of Berlin or does this mean

there are other conversations going on about settling the disputes chiefly to do with

Ukraine where there are plenty of prisoners to settle there.

A very good evening to you, Anna told how to read the Gershovic story.

Does this, is this a predicate for deeper conversation between Moscow and Washington on the eve of a presidential election?

Good evening to you.

Hello, John.

I mean, it could be.

It certainly indicates, of of course the channels of communication

are still there which is positive but as you said I, this is very much the old Cold War playbook.

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