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Transnational Thursday for August 1, 2024

Transnational Thursday is a thread for people to discuss international news, foreign policy or international relations history. Feel free as well to drop in with coverage of countries you’re interested in, talk about ongoing dynamics like the wars in Israel or Ukraine, or even just whatever you’re reading.

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I wonder how hilariously one sided this one will be. Hopefully not as bad in terms of what is being encouraged and effects like Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange but I have no high hopes here.

It was one-sided, but from a different direction: about 2x more people released from Russia.

From what it looks like at a glance, though, the West gave away mostly Russian spies and assassins, while Russia released mostly relatively harmless dissidents.

Harmless to Russia or harmless objectively? These are not the same thing.

for me answer seems "both"

basically Russia found way to get their murders: just threaten to murder more people if you will not get them back! (see Navalny)

I'm talking about those that were sentenced on the fresh law about "discrediting the Russian Armed Forces", so, I assume, harmful mostly to the Russian government's ego.