Netherlands – The Moscow Times, April 11, 2025
Officials in Moscow will pursue further prisoner swap talks with the United States following an exchange earlier this week, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) told state media Friday.
“Dialogue with the new U.S. administration will certainly continue in various areas, including the issue you mentioned,” SVR Director Sergei Naryshkin told reporters when asked about the possibility of future exchanges.
On Thursday, Russia released U.S.-Russian dual national Ksenia Karelina in exchange for Arthur Petrov, a German-Russian dual national arrested in Cyprus in 2023 at the request of U.S. authorities for allegedly exporting sensitive U.S.-made microelectronics to Russia.
