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Al Jazeera
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Politics

How the world reacted to Russia-West prisoner swap

US President Joe Biden, standing alongside family members of the freed prisoners, speaks in the White House, August 1 [Brendan Smialowski/AFP]

The United States and Russia have completed a major prisoner swap, the largest in post-Soviet history, with Moscow releasing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan in a multinational deal.

Thursday’s swap set some two dozen people free, according to officials in Turkey, where the exchange took place.

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