Last week, following the two-day trilateral peace talks at Abu Dhabi, it was announced that the Russian and American delegations had reached an agreement in principle concerning a major exchange of prisoners to take place in the near future.
Details have to be ironed out, of course, which does not happen overnight. So now we wait — not knowing how large an exchange is anticipated, when it might happen, or whether it will include prisoners of war, political prisoners, or both.
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In the meantime, as always on Sunday, we again pay tribute to those political hostages known to be awaiting release, and all of those whose names we don’t know:
Prisoners of War:
The 20,000+ Kidnapped Ukrainian Children
The People of Ukraine
Immigrant Detainees in Russia:
Migrants from the Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Endangered Exiles:
Pavel “Pasha” Talankin
Mikita Losik
Yulia Navalnaya
Oleg Orlov
Countless Journalists and Other Dissidents
Political Prisoners:
In Afghanistan:
Mahmoud Habibi (Afghan-American)
Paul Overby (American, missing since 2018)
In Azerbaijan:
The “Azerbaijan 7”:
– Farid Mehralizada
– Ulvi Hasanli
– Sevinj Abbasova (Vagifqiai)
– Mahammad Kekalov
– Hafiz Babali
– Nargiz Absalamova
– Elnara Gasimova
In Belarus:
Asker Alakhverdziyev
Neli Alfyorava
Andrei Chapiuk
Uladzimir Labkovich
Natallya Manyla
Ivan Miksha
Natallya Mikuich
Andrzej Poczobut
Marfa Rabkova
Valiantsin Stafanovic
Maria Uspenskaya
Danila Zharyn
Yuras Zyankovich
In Georgia:
Mzia Amaglobeli
In Russia:
The “Crimea 8”:
– Oleg Antipov
– Artyom Azatyan
– Georgy Azatyan
– Aleksandr Bylin
– Roman Solomko
– Artur Terchanyan
– Dmitry Tyazhelykh
– Vladimir Zloba
James Scott Rhys Anderson (British)
Aleksandr Andreyev
Aleksandr Antonov (Russian/Ukrainian/American)
David Barnes (American)
Yevgenia Berkovich
Gordon Black (American)
Hayden Davies (British)
Yury Dmitriyev
Anastasia Dyudyaeva
Antonina Favorskaya
Konstantin Gabov
Olga Jezler (Russian/American)
Sergey Karelin
Andre Khachaturian (Armenian/American)
Timur Kishukov
Vadim Kobzev
Darya Kozyreva
Artyom Kriger
Aleksandr Kynev
Michael Travis Leake (American)
Aleksei Liptser
Svitlana Loi (in Ukraine)
Mikhail Loshchinin
“Madame Z” (in Ukraine)
Grigory Melkonyants
Dmitry Morozov
Boris Nadezhdin
Nika Novak
Svetlana Petriichuk
Leonid Pshenychnov (in Russian-occupied Crimea)
Ilya Remeslo
Nadezhda Rossinskaya (a.k.a. Nadin Geisler)
Lev Schlossberg
Daniel Schneider
Sofiane Sehili (French)
Igor Sergunin
Dmitry Shatresov
Robert Shonov
Grigory Skvortsov
Eugene Spector (American)
Joseph Tater (American, disappeared)
Karina Tsurkan
Arseniy Turbinin (age 18)
Laurent Vinatier
Robert Romanov Woodland (American)
Chuck Zimmerman
You have not been, and will not be, forgotten. Stay strong.
Just sayin’ . . .
Brendochka
11/15/26
