Tumbling into a new Cold War WSJ reporter Drew Hinshaw’s new book offers the inside scoop on Putin’s historic prisoner swap with the West

Tumbling into a new Cold War WSJ reporter Drew Hinshaw’s new book offers the inside scoop on Putin’s historic prisoner swap with the West

In August 2024, Western countries carried out the biggest prisoner swap with Russia in the country’s modern history. In exchange for a ragtag group of hackers and spies, and one high-profile FSB assassin, Vladimir Putin released 16 people from prison. Among those who went free were Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, former U.S. Marine Paula Whelan, Russian opposition politicians Ilya Yashin and Vlad…