4/21/24: Putin’s Hostages: Bring Them Home, Week 16 – One New Name Added To the List

Sunday again, with yet another new addition to the list: Robert Woodland Romanov, the Russian-American dual citizen about whom I wrote at length just two days ago. Arrested on charges of drug trafficking, his case awaits resolution; but as his American citizenship renders him likely to become another of the pawns on Putin’s chess board, he has been added to our list.

Robert Woodland Romanov, Russian-American: Prisoner, Moscow

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And once again, the remainder of the list continues sadly unchanged. Please do not forget them; their families and friends haven’t. And here are their pictures as a weekly reminder that they are real, and truly suffering. In no particular order, they are:

Evan Gershkovich, American: HOSTAGE (Lefortovo Prison, Moscow)
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Dual Russian/British: HOSTAGE (Penal Colony IK-7, Omsk, Russia)
Paul Whelan, American/British/Irish/Canadian: HOSTAGE (Penal Colony IK-17, Mordovia, Russia)
Boris Akunin, “Foreign Agent”
Marc Hilliard Fogel, American: HOSTAGE (Rybinsk Penal Colony, Russia)
“Asya Kazantseva and Ilya Barabanov, “Foreign Agents”
Alsu Kurmasheva, Dual Russian/American: HOSTAGE (Remand Prison, Kazan, Russia)
Aleksandr Skobov, Russian: HOSTAGE (Pretrial Detention, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Antonina Favorskaya, Russian: HOSTAGE (In detention)
Oleg Orlov, Russian: HOSTAGE
Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian: HOSTAGE
Oleg Navalny, Brother of Alexei Navalny, Russian: HOSTAGE
Ilya Yashin, Russian: HOSTAGE (Detention Center, Smolensk, Russia)
Ksenia Karelina. Dual Russian/U.S. Citizen: HOSTAGE (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
Ksenia Fadeyeva, Russian: HOSTAGE
Lilia Chanysheva, Russian: HOSTAGE
Vadim Ostanin, Russian: HOSTAGE
Sergei Udaltsov, Russian: HOSTAGE
And God knows how many more . . .

Brendochka
4/21/24

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