“Vladimir spent two and a half years unjustly imprisoned in Russia for speaking out against Russia’s war in Ukraine,” Biden wrote. “Today his family is whole again,” he added in a post where he posted a photo together.
The opposition representative, former coordinator of the Open Russia movement, columnist and critic of the Kremlin was sent to prison for 25 years by a Russian court last April, finding him guilty of, among other things, treason. The Russian Court of Appeal upheld the verdict against him in July.
Russia, the United States and some other European countries exchanged prisoners in Turkey in early August.
Among the people released by Russia were The Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan. The exchange also concerned the Russian-American journalist Alsa Kurmaševová, who lived in the Czech Republic before her detention, and Oleg Orlov, a human rights defender from the Memorial association.
