Today there is one indicator of a person's true quality: a political “term”...

Today there is one indicator of a person's true quality: a political “term.”

It is the willingness to publicly spit in Putin’s face and that of his regime.

Emigrants convicted in absentia do not claim the halos of political saints.

Yes, relocation is no easy lot, but history will still call the true martyrs those who personally took the blow of the Kremlin madhouse and ascended the filthy Golgotha of the Federal Penitentiary Service.

They did not save the “honor of Russia.” It is impossible to save it, for this “honor” does not exist in principle. It long ago choked in the briefcase. It dissolved there too.

A rumor has gone around among political prisoners actually behind bars: a new exchange is being prepared. And they will be exchanged not for hackers and killers, but for the lifting of some sanctions.

And immediately, magnificent voices rang out from the cells. Already two prominent political prisoners have refused any participation in such an exchange.

These are, of course, Alexander Skobov (68 years old, sentenced to 16 years in prison) and the brave Yaroslav Shirshikov from Yekaterinburg.

Political prisoner Yaroslav Shirshikov refused an exchange so as not to give the authorities economic benefits

Yaroslav Shirshikov, a political prisoner from Yekaterinburg, sent a letter from the penal colony in which he refused release under Dmitry Muratov’s initiative to exchange political prisoners for the lifting of some American sanctions against the Russian authorities. According to Shirshikov, he opposes any trilateral deals that allow the Russian authorities to obtain economic and diplomatic benefits in exchange for his release from torture by a Russian prison.

Well-known human-rights defender Alexander Skobov, who is in a Russian prison for speaking out against the war and Putin’s regime, said that he does not want to be released in exchange for easing sanctions against Russia

He categorically opposed being included on lists for a possible exchange providing for the partial lifting of sanctions against Russia.

“I am categorically opposed to any deal involving any weakening of sanctions before a complete freeze of hostilities. And I will not consent to become a commodity in such a deal,”

Skobov wrote.

Nevzorov

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