TOPSHOT – US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris watch as US-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva embraces her husband Pavel Butorin and their daughters Miriam Butorin and Bibi Butorinasas at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on August 1, 2024.
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TOPSHOT – US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris watch as US-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva embraces her husband Pavel Butorin and their daughters Miriam Butorin and Bibi Butorinasas at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on August 1, 2024.
ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP by way of Getty Pictures
It has been greater than three weeks because the U.S. and Russia accomplished the most important prisoner swap because the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Talking from the White Home shortly after information broke that three American prisoners have been headed dwelling, President Biden described the discharge as an “incredible relief.”
Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva was a kind of prisoners, and he or she’s sharing what life was like in a Russian jail and the way she’s adjusting to life at dwelling.
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