A crowd gathered at Germany’s Cologne/Bonn Airport to welcome newly released prisoners part of a major exchange between Russia and Western states. Police said some 80 people had gathered peacefully near the airport’s access road and were considered to be “aligned with the Russian opposition.” One of the participants, Anastasia, mentioned her involvement with the association Free Russia North Rhine-Westphalia and expressed support for the released prisoners. “We wanted to share this joy with each other,” she said about the gathering. The demonstrators expressed their hope of seeing the released…