Released from Russian prisons, opposition figures Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya Yashin stated that no one asked them whether they agreed to the exchange. They even refused to fulfill the formal condition for the exchange – asking Russian President Vladimir Putin for a pardon, according to a statement from Kara-Murza and Yashin. The mentioned opposition figures, along with their colleague Andrei Pivovarov, made their first statements at a press conference in Bonn, Germany, on Friday. “I’m not viewing what happened to me … as an exchange. I’m viewing it as an expulsion from Russia, an illegal e…