INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who spent more than a decade in a United States jail before being returned to Russia in a prisoner
swap, was appointed a member of Russia's Civic Chamber by President Vladimir Putin on Friday.Yaroshenko, who was arrested in Liberia in
2010 and extradited to the United States on drug charges, was convicted of cocaine smuggling and sentenced to 20 years in a United States
He has always denied the charges against him.In April, Yaroshenko was swapped in a prisoner exchange for the former United States Marine
appointed Yaroshenko to the 168-member Civic Chamber, a civil society group that has consultative powers in its work monitoring government
forces to oppose the lying propaganda machine that illegally convicts and persecutes Russian and other citizens who disagree with United
