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According to data available to The Insider<\/em>, the released political prisoners include Evan Gershkovich, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Paul Whelan, Ilya Yashin, Alsu Kurmasheva, Andrei Pivovarov, Oleg Orlov, Alexandra Skochilenko, Lilia Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeeva, Rico Krieger, Kevin Lik, Demuri Voronin, Vadim Ostanin, Patrick Schobel, and Herman Moyzhes. In return, Russia has received FSB operative Vadim Krasikov, along with multiple spies and fraudsters.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Negotiations on the exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West have been ongoing for several years, through different channels and in a variety of formats. In early 2022, The Insider’s<\/em> Christo Grozev (then a Bellingcat<\/em> investigator) proposed a joint prisoner exchange with the U.S. and Germany. The key figure from the West would be Vadim Krasikov, convicted due to a joint investigation by The Insider<\/em> and Bellingcat<\/em>, while the key figure on the Russian side would be Alexei Navalny.<\/p>\n In a statement to The Insider<\/em>, Grozev said:<\/p>\n \u201cWhile this was a hard moral choice to make, as the assassin had taken the life of a Chechen\/Georgian asylum seeker, it appeared to be the only way to ensure at least a chance for political change in Russia. It was also the only way to get many unjustly jailed Americans, Germans and Russians rotting in prisons in Russia.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Initially, the Kremlin believed it only needed to negotiate with the United States, assuming Washington could influence the Europeans. However, Krasikov was arrested by Germany, making Berlin’s involvement crucial for the talks. Putin hoped to swap Krasikov for Evan Gershkovich \u2014 an American journalist arrested specifically for the exchange. Negotiators even learned about Gershkovich’s sentence before it was officially announced. Nonetheless, Putin’s plan failed as the Germans showed no interest in \u201cAmerican spies\u201d detained in Russia and were only willing to discuss exchanging Krasikov for Navalny, who became well-known after his poisoning attempt.<\/p>\n The negotiations were also complicated by the fact that German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock believed that the release of the hitman Krasikov was unacceptable; Krasikov was a convicted murderer, while Russia was offering in exchange political prisoners falsely accused of espionage. Although this opinion wasn\u2019t dominant in the ruling coalition, it was taken into account in the U.S., as Baerbock was perceived as Washington\u2019s main ally in Germany in the context of the war with Ukraine and this topic was more important to them than the exchange.<\/p>\n By October 2023, a general consensus seemed to emerge, leading towards an 8-for-8 exchange with Krasikov and Navalny as the main figures. But Russia delayed confirming Navalny’s inclusion until the last moment. Navalny was then killed in prison. Germany then deferred further negotiations for a swap.<\/p>\n According to Grozev, \u201cThe killing of Navalny in prison brought another moral dilemma; reward Putin with handing back the assassin despite Navalny’s death, or prioritize the freedom of dozens of Russian and US innocently imprisoned people, including our colleagues Evan and Alsu.\u201d<\/p>\n In April 2024, Germany signaled potential interest in an asymmetrical exchange: Putin would have to release multiple political prisoners for Krasikov alone. Meanwhile, the negotiation dynamics were shifting in Russia as well. Initially, Sergei Beseda, head of the FSB’s Fifth Service, was the key negotiator on the Russian side. However, his position weakened after a series<\/a> of failures and corruption scandals, and he lost interest in the exchange. In June 2024, Putin replaced Beseda with Alexei Komkov, who revitalized the negotiation process. Around this time, the German BND, represented by Deputy Head Philip Wolff, officially joined the talks. The negotiations quickly gained momentum, and within weeks, the parties reached an agreement.<\/p>\n The Russian prisoners were released by a presidential pardon, which, contrary to conventional wisdom, does not formally require an admission of guilt \u2014 or even a petition for pardon.<\/p>\n Vadim Krasikov is an assassin who served in Vympel, a unit of the FSB Spetsnaz Center, and was later identified as the perpetrator of several contract killings, including that of businessman Alexander Kozlov in Karelia in 2007, businessman Albert Nazranov in Moscow 2015, and Chechen refugee Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Krasikov was wanted in Russia, but he managed to avoid a life in jail and ended up at an FSB Spetsnaz training base<\/a> near Moscow instead. After a few months of training, he was given a fake passport in the name of Sokolov and a modernized Glock pistol and was sent to Berlin to eliminate Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Putin had publicly called Khangoshvili a terrorist but never presented any evidence of his involvement in any terrorist attack \u2014 and never made any official requests to Germany to extradite him as a terrorist.<\/p>\n After the assassination, Russia denied any involvement, but The Insider<\/em> discovered Sokolov’s real name and obtained documents proving he was a member of the Russian intelligence services, after which he was handed a life sentence in Germany. Subsequently, Putin stopped denying his connection to Krasikov, called the assassin a \u201cpatriot,\u201d and announced<\/a> that he was open to trading him for Evan Gershkovich.<\/p>\n Spouses Artem Dultsev and Anna Dultseva, who were living in Slovenia posing as Argentine citizens Ludwig Gisch and Maria Rosa Mayer Mu\u00f1oz, were detained in Ljubljana in late 2022. \u201cMaria\u201d pretended to be an art gallery owner, but as The Insider<\/em> discovered, no one knew her in the Slovenian art market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The police identified them by comparing the fingerprints of the pseudo-Argentines and the Dultsevs, which were in the possession of Interpol. On the eve of the prisoner swap, they confessed. Although press reports suggest they were identified as officers of the SVR (Russia\u2019s Foreign Intelligence Service), the facts of their biography studied by The Insider<\/em> suggest are more likely to be working for the GRU (the Main Intelligence Directorate).<\/p>\n On February 27, 2022, GRU agent Pavel Rubtsov, posing as Spanish journalist Pablo Gonzalez, was detained by Poland on the Polish-Ukrainian border and charged with spying for Russia. It was alleged that he used his status as a journalist to gather information for Russian intelligence services.<\/p>\n Among other things, Gonzalez gathered intelligence in Ukraine and attempted to gain the trust of Russian opposition activists. After his arrest, local security services examined the digital media seized from \u201cGonzalez\u201d and found detailed reports on the activities of Zhanna Nemtsova, Boris Nemtsov\u2019s daughter, and people from her entourage. The \u201cjournalist\u201d was particularly interested in participants in a summer school of journalism from Ukraine and the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Russian hacker Roman Seleznev was sentenced in the United States to 27 years in prison for computer fraud and identity theft. Detained since 2014, Seleznev received his final sentence in 2018, marking the largest penalty for cybercrime in U.S. history. Prosecutors argued that Seleznev had \u201cpioneered\u201d the credit card fraud industry, significantly contributing to the growth of this underground market. They described him as \u201cone of the most revered hackers in the criminal world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Since 2003, Seleznev had been selling stolen bank card data, primarily targeting U.S. citizens. U.S. intelligence agencies had been tracking his activities on hacker forums since the mid-2000s. They estimated the total damage from Seleznev’s actions to exceed $169 million.<\/p>\n According to sources from the independent Russian outlet TV Rain<\/em>, Seleznev was apprehended in the Maldives in 2014 following a tip-off from Sergei Mikhailov, the deputy head of the FSB’s Center for Information Security, and his colleagues. Mikhailov allegedly provided intelligence on Russian cybercriminals to U.S. intelligence agencies \u2014 particularly the CIA. Seleznev’s arrest, as the son of State Duma deputy Valery Seleznev (from the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia), reportedly triggered an investigation into Mikhailov and his subordinates. In 2017, Mikhailov was detained and convicted of state treason, leading to a halt in U.S.-Russia cooperation on cybercrime investigations.<\/p>\n Seleznev was wanted by Interpol via a so-called \u201cred notice.\u201d He was detained by U.S. intelligence agents at the airport in Male, Maldives, on charges of computer fraud, hacking, breaking into bank accounts, and stealing credit card information, causing approximately $2 million in damages to U.S. citizens and organizations. He was then flown to the United States to face charges.<\/p>\n On September 7, 2023, a court in Boston, Massachusetts, found the Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin guilty of insider trading and sentenced him to nine years in prison.<\/p>\n Klyushin was arrested in Switzerland in March 2021 and later extradited to the U.S. He was accused of participating in a scheme that involved the illegal use of confidential information for financial gain in the securities market. According to the indictment, the insider trading scheme, orchestrated outside the U.S., generated $93 million in profits for its participants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In May 2022, a court in Norway charged an employee of the Arctic University of Troms\u00f8 with espionage and published his full name. The spy turned out to be Mikhail Valerievich Mikushin, born August 19, 1978. He posed as Brazilian citizen Jos\u00e9 Assis Giammaria, born in 1984, and in recent years successfully worked at the Norwegian University of Troms\u00f8.<\/p>\n The Insider<\/em> was able to confirm<\/a> Mikushin’s affiliation with the GRU, and at the same time studied his biography, coming to the conclusion that the \u201cprofessor\u201d did everything in his power to fail at his mission.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Konoshchenok was one of the members of the Serniya smuggling network<\/a>, previously reported on by The Insider<\/em>, which was involved in illegally exporting high-tech equipment from the United States to Russian state-owned companies via the EU.<\/p>\n As per U.S. investigators, the items smuggled included<\/a> \u201cadvanced electronics and sophisticated testing equipment\u201d intended for use in nuclear weapons development and other military and space-based applications. Investigators claim that once these goods reached Europe and Asia, they were repackaged and shipped from various \u201cintermediate locations\u201d before ultimately being sent to Russia.<\/p>\n The network’s core companies secured state contracts totaling 5.2 billion rubles (over $60 million), while peripheral companies managed to secure 1.2 billion rubles (close to $14 million).<\/p>\n Konoshchenok was detained<\/a> in Narva, Estonia, in November 2022, while transporting smuggled goods to Russia. He had been repeatedly stopped by Estonian border guards for smuggling semiconductors, other electronics, and bullets for sniper rifles into Russia. Despite these stops, he continued his smuggling activities until his arrest and subsequent extradition to the United States. U.S. authorities suggest that Konoshchenok served in Russian intelligence, not just as a smuggler.<\/p>\n Investigative documents reviewed by The Insider<\/em> reveal that Konoshchenok personally identified himself as an \u201cFSB colonel\u201d \u2014 and suggested that the entire Serniya network was under the control of the Russian intelligence services. In correspondence seized from Konoshchenok, U.S. authorities discovered a photo of him wearing an FSB uniform, which he had sent to a contact with the caption \u201cpassport photo.\u201d<\/p>\n As discovered by The Insider<\/em><\/a>, Serniya\u2019s clients included FSB institutes, military communications developers, as well as Russia\u2019s Federal Protection Service (FSO) and Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), as well as multiple other Russian government and security agencies. The network had been in operation since at least 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A correspondent for The Wall Street Journal<\/em> whom Russia sentenced<\/a> to 16 years in prison last month, Gershkovich became the first foreign media employee in the history of modern Russia to be arrested on espionage charges.<\/p>\n Gershkovich was arrested in March 2023 in Yekaterinburg, where he flew to interview PR expert Yaroslav Shirshikov about public attitudes towards recruitment to the Wagner Group. Russian security services pursued the reporter while he was on an editorial assignment, recording his movements on camera and pressuring his sources. The journalist speculated that his phone might be tapped. During another trip, to Pskov, he was also followed and filmed by unknown individuals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n According to the prosecution, Gershkovich \u201cacted on the instructions of the CIA to collect classified information on the activities of the defense enterprise JSC NPK Uralvagonzavod related to military equipment production and repair in March 2023 in the Sverdlovsk region\u201d and did so \u201cwith utmost discretion.\u201d According to the photographer who worked with Gershkovich, the reporter was collecting material for an article on how people in Russian regions perceive the war. Before his arrest, he had visited Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Tagil and planned to travel to other cities. According to media reports, Gershkovich also examined the recruitment practices of the Wagner PMC.<\/p>\n In April 2023, a Russian court sentenced political activist and publicist Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison. He had been kept in a Moscow pre-trial detention center since April 2022 on charges of spreading \u201cfalse information\u201d about the Russian army, cooperation with an \u201cundesirable organization,\u201d and state treason.<\/p>\n The latter charge had been brought forward in response to Kara-Murza\u2019s public speeches in the United States and Europe, in which he condemned politically motivated state terror, election fraud, and human rights violations in Russia, and called his country the aggressor in the war with Ukraine. According to the investigation, in doing so he \u201ccreated threats to the external security and territorial integrity\u201d of Russia. According to media reports, Kara-Murza was accused of harming Russia \u201cout of self-interest\u201d by participating in the Helsinki Committee award ceremony for political prisoner Yury Dmitriev.<\/p>\n Kara-Murza also wrote columns for the Washington Post<\/em> from his prison cell, which won him the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary<\/a> in 2024. As per the award’s website, the prize was awarded \u201cfor passionate columns written under great personal risk from his prison cell, warning of the consequences of dissent in Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia and insisting on a democratic future for his country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In 2021, The Insider<\/em> and Bellingcat<\/em> published an investigation<\/a> that shed light on the two attempts made by FSB NII-2 officers to poison the opposition activist and named the suspects. Shortly after, Kara-Murza filed an application with the Russian Investigative Committee for attempted murder, but the criminal case was denied.<\/p>\n After the assassination attempts, the politician\u2019s health sharply deteriorated. He also suffers from polyneuropathy, a severe chronic disease that in theory should exempt him from serving his sentence in a penal colony. On July 10, after numerous refusals, he was finally admitted to Hospital 11 of the Federal Penitentiary System in Omsk for medical examination.<\/p>\n Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine and later head of security at the auto parts firm BorgWarner, was arrested in Moscow in 2018 when he flew to Russia for the wedding of his former colleague.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n On December 28, 2018, Paul Whelan was detained by FSB officers in his hotel room while receiving a USB drive from a member of the Russian security services. According to the investigation, the USB drive contained information about employees of one of the divisions of the FSB’s economic security service. Whelan claimed that he expected to receive a flash drive with photos of churches from Sergiev Posad from a longtime acquaintance who he knew to be a Russian officer.<\/p>\n Whelan attributed his criminal prosecution to a debt of about 100,000 rubles, which his old acquaintance, an FSB operative, allegedly refused to repay. This acquaintance may have been a major in the FSB’s ‘K’ department with the last name Yatsenko. The officer allegedly gave Whelan the flash drive containing data, along with a bottle of whiskey, on December 28, 2018.<\/p>\n Whelan’s lawyers stated that after his detention, they were informed he could be exchanged for the arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was serving a sentence in a U.S. prison from 2012 to 2022 on charges of illegal arms trading and financing terrorism. However, the prisoner swap, which occurred without Whelan, ultimately involved Viktor Bout being exchanged<\/a> for WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner, who was convicted in Russia for smuggling drugs after a vape cartridge containing THC was found in her luggage.<\/p>\n The Insider<\/em> interviewed<\/a> Whelan in July 2021.<\/p>\n On December 9, 2022, Moscow\u2019s Meshchansky District Court sentenced the opposition politician Yashin to 8.5 years in a \u201cgeneral regime\u201d penal colony for spreading \u201cfalse information\u201d about the Russian army, marking the strictest penalty under this charge at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The case stemmed from Yashin’s YouTube stream discussing the Russian military’s actions in Bucha. Previously, he was fined 30,000 rubles for \u201cdiscrediting the Russian army\u201d by posting a 1969 protest photo against the Vietnam War with the caption: \u201cBombing for peace is like fucking for virginity. 50 years have passed, and the slogans are still relevant.\u201d In total, Yashin faced four charges for allegedly \u201cdiscrediting\u201d the Russian army.<\/p>\n Kurmasheva, a 47-year-old U.S.-Russian citizen, worked as a journalist for Idel.Realii<\/em>, the regional news outlet of Radio Free Europe \/ Radio Liberty\u2019s <\/em>(RFE\/RL) Tatar-Bashkir Service. She lived in Prague, Czechia.<\/p>\n In May 2023, Kurmasheva traveled to Russia for family reasons. On June 2, as she attempted to fly back to Czechia, she was detained at Kazan airport. Both her Russian and U.S. passports were confiscated, and she was later fined for failing to inform Russian authorities of her dual citizenship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n On October 18, while still in Tatarstan awaiting the return of her documents, Kurmasheva was again detained for allegedly \u201cfailing to submit documents required for inclusion in the register of foreign agents.\u201d Kurmasheva had not been included in the register of \u201cforeign agents\u201d at that time. According to her lawyer, Edgar Matevosyan, Russian authorities believed that as a potential \u201cforeign agent,\u201d she should have self-registered.<\/p>\n In December, a second case was opened against Kurmasheva for spreading \u201cfalse information\u201d about the Russian army. The charge was related to her editorial work on the book \u201cNo to War. 40 stories of Russians opposing the invasion of Ukraine.\u201d Kurmasheva had been in pre-trial detention since October 2023.<\/p>\n On July 19, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan sentenced<\/a> Kurmasheva to 6 years and 6 months in prison for spreading \u201cfalse information\u201d about the Russian army. Kurmasheva’s case, like that of fellow reporter Evan Gershkovich, was heard behind closed doors. Her lawyer stated that this was the final verdict, with no further trials to follow.<\/p>\n In March 2023, a criminal case was launched against Oleg Orlov, a 70-year-old human rights activist and chairman of Memorial, following searches at Memorial as part of another investigation into the \u201crehabilitation of Nazism.\u201d During the investigation, equipment and archival documents were seized from the organization.<\/p>\n Orlov was accused of writing an article titled \u201cThey wanted fascism \u2014 they got it,\u201d in which he described Russia’s military actions in Ukraine as \u201cthe heaviest blow to the future of the country.\u201d The article was first published in the French publication Mediapart<\/em> and later shared by Orlov on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n On October 11, 2023, the Golovinsky District Court of Moscow fined Orlov 150,000 rubles. The prosecutor’s office appealed the verdict, seeking to increase the punishment to three years of imprisonment. On February 27, 2024, the court found Orlov guilty and sentenced<\/a> him to 2.5 years in a penal colony. Upon his admission to SIZO-5 ‘Vodnik,’ Orlov was offered an agreement to be sent to the front in Ukraine. When he mentioned his age, the detention center staff responded that it did not concern them.<\/p>\n Oleg Orlov joined the initiative group ‘Memorial,’ which advocated for the rehabilitation of victims of political repression in the USSR, in 1988. He was a confidant of human rights activist Sergei Kovalyov in the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, worked on the Supreme Soviet staff, and contributed to laws aimed at humanizing Russia’s penitentiary system and rehabilitating political repression victims. He also became chairman of Memorial.<\/p>\n From 1994, Orlov worked in Chechnya, meeting with the Chechen separatist leaders Dzhokhar Dudaev and Aslan Maskhadov, taking part in prisoner exchange negotiations, and inspecting hospitals and POW camps. In 1995, he negotiated with terrorists led by Shamil Basayev during the Budyonnovsk attack, eventually becoming a voluntary hostage to guarantee the agreements reached in exchange for the release of most hostages.<\/p>\n In 2007, on the eve of an opposition rally in the city of Nazran, Orlov and a group of TV journalists from REN TV<\/em> were abducted by masked armed men, driven to a field outside the city, and severely beaten. In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held the Russian authorities responsible for Orlov’s abduction.<\/p>\n In June 2021, before the criminal case, Orlov complained to the ECHR about threats from the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, who had repeatedly called for the activist’s murder, imprisonment, and intimidation for insulting his honor online.<\/p>\n \u201cThose who violate harmony between people, engage in gossip, discord, if we don’t stop them by killing, jailing and scaring them, nothing will work,\u201d Kadyrov declared. According to Kadyrov, it is impossible to \u201cleave a person who insults honor [unpunished], even if the whole world burns with blue flames, the laws of all countries will be violated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nHOW THE TALKS PROGRESSED<\/h3>\n
WHO IS RUSSIA GETTING?<\/h3>\n
Who is Vadim Krasikov?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nWho are the Slovenian illegals?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nPavel Rubtsov (\u201cPablo Gonzalez\u201d)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nHacker Roman Seleznev<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nBusinessman Vladislav Klyushin<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nNorwegian GRU \u201cillegal\u201d Mikhail Mikushin<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nVadim Konoshchenok<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nWHO HAS RUSSIA RELEASED FROM PRISON? <\/strong><\/h3>\n
Evan Gershkovich<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nVladimir Kara-Murza<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nPaul Whelan<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![](\"https:\/\/api.theins.ru\/images\/ysbfFBbV2pjsVgJwd2IHRJXP4Ql0JLLZW4cawJ65DP8\/rs:fit:866:0:0:0\/dpr:1\/q:80\/bG9jYWw6L3B1Ymxp\/Yy9zdG9yYWdlL2Nv\/bnRlbnRfYmxvY2sv\/aW1hZ2UvMjcxNzUv\/ZmlsZS0yNDFlNmJm\/ZTQyOGNlYWY5MGVi\/OGE4Zjc5NDEzYjVi\/Mi5qcGc.jpg\")
<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nIlya Yashin<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![](\"https:\/\/api.theins.ru\/images\/oTJ6RK6XGbIbnv6i27wjnOpr9bpuATQoc6DBuAP6VGA\/rs:fit:866:0:0:0\/dpr:1\/q:80\/bG9jYWw6L3B1Ymxp\/Yy9zdG9yYWdlL2Nv\/bnRlbnRfYmxvY2sv\/aW1hZ2UvMjcyNTkv\/ZmlsZS04MTM2YWUz\/NWU1OTY1NDE4ZTJl\/MmY2ZTA4NTQyYTYz\/MS5qcGc.jpg\")
<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nAlsu Kurmasheva<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![](\"https:\/\/api.theins.ru\/images\/pB5-uhMNAvdsQ7pOecqMuHNCIadxlrbN9aWvVH-CW5w\/rs:fit:866:0:0:0\/dpr:1\/q:80\/bG9jYWw6L3B1Ymxp\/Yy9zdG9yYWdlL2Nv\/bnRlbnRfYmxvY2sv\/aW1hZ2UvMjcxNzYv\/ZmlsZS1iNDUwMGJj\/MDczNjkyZGE2ZmU0\/ODY1ZGVjZGVmYjAy\/MS5qcGc.jpg\")
<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nOleg Orlov<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![](\"https:\/\/api.theins.ru\/images\/pbR3yTcHCfUV0NznT9me8_jk3yzDU9h7XA50wwh81ZQ\/rs:fit:866:0:0:0\/dpr:1\/q:80\/bG9jYWw6L3B1Ymxp\/Yy9zdG9yYWdlL2Nv\/bnRlbnRfYmxvY2sv\/aW1hZ2UvMjcxNjkv\/ZmlsZS1lNTE0MTQz\/OThiNjM0OTQ1NmZk\/ZDZlYWE4ZjhiN2I2\/MS5qcGc.jpg\")
<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nAlexandra Skochilenko<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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