One_Atmosphere_8557 t1_jeaduwd wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:06 PM

> Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said it was too early to talk of any possible prisoner swap with the United States

There it is. This is what this charade is all about.

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anna_pescova t1_jeb4xgb wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:58 PM

I suspect this is purely because a Russian intelligence operative, who lived in Maryland using forged Brazilian identity documents, has been charged with espionage and other crimes by the US Department of Justice. Victor Muller Ferreira, a Brazilian national, was stopped from entering the Netherlands in June 2022, where he had intended to join the International Criminal Court (IOC) as an intern on forged papers.

A few days after Cherkasov returned to Brazil, a federal court in Guarulhos, a suburb of Sao Paolo, found him guilty of having used the identity of a dead Brazilian citizen to forge identity papers, which he then used to enter and leave Brazil 15 times over 10 years. The 10-year period had started in 2010, when Cherkasov had entered Brazil using his real Russian identity. But when he left the country a few months later, he did so using the forged identity that had allegedly been provided to him by Russian intelligence. Having examined the charges against Cherkasov, the court jailed him for 15 years.

Now the United States Department of Justice has charged Cherkasov with a list of new crimes, including acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign power and repeatedly carrying out visa, bank and wire fraud.

I expect Russia want him back and will offer to trade Evan Gershkovich sometime in the future.

ifhrsmbhiam t1_jecif99 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:32 AM

He either knew the risks and is akin to hero for humanity or naive for thinking it wouldn’t happen. Either way feel bad for the dude.

Many-Location-643 t1_jeebfum wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:07 PM

Time for the US to just round up all the Russian journalists working inside our borders....

duckduckbananas t1_jeaene4 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:11 PM

This is already on the front page of Reddit dude and has been for hours

Marchello_E t1_jeal7mc wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:53 PM

Is there a front page? (I see a list of joined subreddits)

duckduckbananas t1_jealc6k wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:54 PM

yeah I meant the 'popular' feed with all the trending stuff at the top

Marchello_E t1_jeanuvt wrote on March 30, 2023 at 5:10 PM

I don't see what would be 'popular' or trending.

I was joined with r/announcements/ but it's old, so I left.

Best option I found that comes close to a suggested frontpage: https://www.reddit.com/r/all/top/

duckduckbananas t1_jeaqip3 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 5:27 PM

on mobile there's a 'home' feed which shows you posts from all the subs you've joined. And 'popular' which is just all the hot posts from 'all'.

link

Marchello_E t1_jeaw6ab wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:03 PM

I'm on a desktop, but from your screenshot I found: https://www.reddit.com/r/popular/ with the trendingbar.

Thanks

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