INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
multilateral deal to swap Russian detainees in Western countries for Western citizens in Russia could also include dissidents like Navalny,
The Wall Street Journalreported Sunday, citing anonymous officials in several countries.The jailed Kremlin critic wassentenced this summer
slammed both rulings as politically motivated.Navalny was imprisoned upon his January 2021 return to Russia after recovering from a
near-fatal poisoning with what Western scientists determined was the banned military-grade nerve agent Novichok.The activist's associates,
who are now living in exile abroad, have not commented on whether Navalny would agree to be included in the kind of prisoner swap mentioned
courtsentenced Krasikov to life imprisonment in 2021 for the assassination of a former Chechen commander in a central Berlin park two years
