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France grants asylum to anti-Kremlin couple detained in US immigration crackdown

ICE agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, on 4 February, 2026. © Getty Images via AFP/John Moore

France has granted safe haven to an anti-Kremlin Russian activist couple, who had been held by the country's ICE agency that is leading US President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration.

France issued humanitarian visas to Alexei Ishimov, 31, and his 29-year-old wife Nadezhda to avoid them being deported to Russia from the United States.

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