While high-profile prisoner exchanges have occurred, the prospects of swaps are unclear.
One was a journalist on a reporting trip. Another was attending a wedding. Yet another was a dual national returning to visit family.All are U.S. citizens now behind bars in Russia on various charges.Arrests of Americans in Russia are increasingly common with relations sinking to Cold War lows. Washington accuses Moscow of using U.S. citizens as bargaining chips, but Russia insists they all broke the law.
The rights group Pervy Otdel said the charges stem from a $51 donation to a U.S. charity that helps Ukraine.DAVID BARNES — An engineer from Texas, Barnes was arrested while visiting his sons in Russia, where their mother had taken them. His supporters say the woman made baseless claims of sexual abuse that already had been discredited by Texas investigators but he was convicted in Russia anyway and sentenced to prison.
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