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President Joe Biden’s prisoner swap deal with Russia that freed several high-profile Americans including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan, along with a number of Russian state dissidents, has broadly been greeted with praise and celebration. But one freed prisoner is not happy about the deal. According to The New York Times, Ilya Yashin, a longtime activist working against Vladimir Putin, told reporters in Bonn, Germany, “What happened on Aug. 1 I don’t view as a prisoner swap but as my illegal expulsion from Russia against my will. And I say sincerel…

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