Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who has been jailed since 2021 on a 30-year jail sentence, but he may be part of a looming prisoner swap deal.
, who was convicted of the 2019 murder of a Chechen insurgent leader in Berlin, returned from Germany.
“The big question is: will Putin go for it?” wrote French-Russian political scientist Tatiana Stanovaya.“But for Putin, Navalny is not an asset, nor is he a threat.”“He may agree to hand over Navalny for Krasikov, regardless of some concerns that may appear in his circle and among the secret services,” Stanovaya wrote., a Georgian citizen of Chechen descent.Khangoshvili was gunned down by Krasikov in 2019 before onlookers in a Berlin park.
Even before his 2021 verdict, Putin had ordered his top security adviser Nikolai Patrushev to explore the possibility of prisoner swap to free Krasikov, theOther, possibly more likely candidates for exchange, include ex-US Marine veteran Paul Whelan, held since 2018, on false spying charges, andPaul Whelan, a former US Marine who was arrested for alleged spying in Moscow in 2018, is another name on the list of potential swap candidates.
As far as Navalny himself goes, freeing Navalny essentially gives Putin “a free hit by putting political prisoners on a trade list”. “Navalny is undoubtedly brave, but he had the chance to leave when he was in Germany and chose to return.”
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