🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW

Douglas Lilburn, David Harper & Paul Whelan:
🎵 Elegy (Now He is Dead)

#BBCRadio3 #DouglasLilburn #DavidHarper #PaulWhelan

but in my view without his leadership & involvement, these hostages would never have come home. #BritneyGriner #EvanGershkovich #PaulWhelan #AlsuKurmasheva #VladimirKaraMurza #TrevorReed c: @latimes.com @sundance.bikesky.social @susanindelaware.bsky.social @lisacameback.bsky.social

'I was not a spy.' 1 year after release from Russia, Paul Whelan details his time in captivity Friday, Aug. 1 marks one year since Paul Whelan was freed. After being accused of espionage & spending more than five years in Russia, the Michigan native said his return home has been bittersweet

One year home, but still a world away from normal. Paul Whelan’s story reminds us that freedom after wrongful imprisonment isn’t the finish line- it’s the start of a tough road back. #PaulWhelan #WrongfulDetention #geopolitics #RussiaIsATerroristState www.wxyz.com/news/voices/...

The crazy story of how Paul Whelan got a most unique FSB souvenir from Russia A few days after Christmas in 2018, Paul Whelan stood in the bathroom of his room at the Metropol Hotel in Moscow, getting ready for the wedding of a friend from the U.S. Marines.  A Russian friend he’d known for 10 years, Ilya Yatsenko, stopped by…

A few days after Christmas in 2018, Paul Whelan stood in the bathroom of his room at the Metropol Hotel in Moscow, getting ready for the wedding of a friend from the U.S. Marines. 


A Russian friend he’d known for 10 years, Ilya Yatsenko, stopped by unexpectedly. He oddly… #PaulWhelan #FSB #Russia

Paul Whelan struggles with 'heartache' in rebuilding his life after Russian imprisonment Nearly four months since Paul Whelan was released from prison by Russia, he feels like a tourist in the Metro Detroit shops and streets that used to feel like home ― a stranger of sorts in the county where he grew up. “I’m familiar with them, but…

Nearly four months since Paul Whelan was released from prison by Russia, he feels like a tourist in the Metro Detroit shops and streets that used to feel like home ― a stranger of sorts in the county where he grew up.


“I’m familiar with them, but… #PaulWhelan #RussianImprisonment #Reintegration

#PaulWhelan thanks #Michigan delegation after his release from Russia
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#Photography #Photographs #Pictures #Photos #PhotoJournalism #PhotoJournalismPhotography #Politics #USPolitics #PrisonerSwap #PresidentBiden #Russia #JoeBiden #PaulWhelan

August 1: Russia prisoner exchange news | CNN Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan were among two dozen detainees that were released Thursday as part of a historic prisoner swap. Follow here for latest li...

Welcome home, #PaulWhelan!

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Three Americans are back on US soil after prisoner swap with Russia The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing journalist � Evan Gershkovich � and fellow American � Paul Whelan , along ....

Three Americans are back on US soil after prisoner swap with Russia
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#Politics #USPolitics #ForeignPolicy #PrisonerSwap #Russia #PaulWhelan #EvanGershkovich #AlsuKurmasheva

Evan Gershkovich, others arrive in U.S. after landmark prisoner swap The swap of at least two dozen people caps months of painstaking diplomacy involving negotiations at the highest levels of multiple governments.

Evan Gershkovich, others arrive in U.S. after landmark prisoner swap
#EvanGershkovich, #PaulWhelan and #AlsuKurmasheva stepped onto U.S. soil late Thursday at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where they were greeted by President Biden and Vice President Harris.

🚨 The Biden administration leaned on Vice President Harris at "key moments" to secure the release #EvanGershkovich and #PaulWhelan.
Kamala got this done. 👀 www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

CNN: #EvanGershkovich and #PaulWhelan are now free

Russia exchanges spies for political prisoners: Gershkovich, Kara-Murza, Whelan, Yashin, Kurmasheva, Chanysheva, Orlov released Russia has completed a prisoner exchange with the U.S. and Germany. According to data available to The Insider, the released political prisoners include Evan Gershkovich, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Paul Whe...

Russia exchanges spies for political prisoners: including #PaulWhelan & Vladimir Kara-Murza. theins.ru/en/news/273542

Russia-West prisoner swap live: Russia to free Evan Gershkovich in biggest prisoner swap with West since Cold War Gershkovich, a journalist for the Wall Street Journal, was imprisoned in Russia on espionage charges that he consistently denied.

👇🇹🇷🇷🇺🇺🇸"Russia to free Evan Gershkovich in biggest prisoner swap with West since Cold War"
#PrisonerSwap #EvanGershkovich #PaulWhelan

U.S., Russia prisoner swap secures release of Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan and others The Biden administration announced the release of three U.S. citizens from Russia, including Evan Gershkovich​, Paul Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva, as part of a complex 24-person prisoner swap.

#Russia #EvanGershkovich #PaulWhelan #USA
U.S., Russia agree to prisoner swap to release Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan and others

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Russia prisoner swap involving US journalist Evan Gershkovich under way Gershkovich and ex-marine Paul Whelan have been freed and are en route to a destination outside Russia, say reports

"Russia prisoner swap involving US journalist #EvanGershkovich under way

Gershkovich and ex-marine #PaulWhelan have been freed and are en route to a destination outside Russia, say reports"

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Paul Whelan’s Family Issues Statement After Brittney Grin... The former Marine remains imprisoned in Russia after Thur...

statement Thursday.
#PaulWhelan
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Russia has accused #PaulWhelan of spying for the CIA.
Republicans and MAGA hate, just HATE the CIA.

Yet here we are. The fact they would rather free a white CIA operative than a black woman says all you need to know about them.

#BrittneyGriner #Bidenwin

Emprisonné aux #USA, le trafiquant d'armes #VictorBout pourrait être échangé contre la basketteuse #BrittneyGriner détenue en #Russie pour consommation et trafic de drogue et #PaulWhelan, ancien Marine US condamné pour espionnage.

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Paul Whelan: Russia rules out prisoner swap for ex-US Marine Ex-US marine Paul Whelan was arrested last month on suspi...

#PaulWhelan: Russia rules out prisoner swap for ex-US Marine https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46769660