RussiaUSSwapTimeline | 01/08/24 | SUPER HD
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- RussiaUSSwapTimeline | 01/08/24 | SUPER HD
- August 1, 2024
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- Transcript/Script STATUS: FINAL LOCATION/STORY: As a historic prisoner exchange unfolds, a look back at other famous East-West swaps (AP) ***OK FOR 30 DAYS -- NO USE AFTER 8/31/24 Slug:Russia US Swap Timeline Arrival Date:Aug 1, 2024 15:53 (GMT) Creation Date:Aug 1, 2024 15:53 (GMT) Duration:01:44 Video ID:4509871 Type:VOSOT Usage:Newsroom Ready Restriction:Part No access Russia, Part No access Austria See Script for additional details. Source:ASSOCIATED PRESS, RU-RTR, COURTESY CHRISTINE CORNELL, ORF Location:Khimki / Bangkok / Moscow / San Antonio, Texas / New York, U.S. Subjects:International agreements Categories:National Friendly Key:2005887866 Copyright:Copyright 2024 The Associated Press, though the copyright in some contents and materials incorporated herein may be owned by third parties where so indicated. All rights reserved. Use Information:Use of this content is for editorial purposes only. For inquiries regarding non-editorial uses, contact your licensing representative. As a historic prisoner exchange unfolds, a look back at other famous East-West swaps (AP) Editors / Producers please click to view this video on AP Newsroom https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/AsahistoricprisonerexchangeunfoldsalookbackatotherfamousEastWestswaps/fd0ca16683b04c0a9b98d1b612811c6a/video SHOTLIST: RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Part No access Russia, Part No access Austria ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Khimki, Russia - 4 August 2022 ++16:9++ 1. Various of American basketball star Brittney Griner listening to the verdict inside the courtroom ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Bangkok, Thailand - 20 August 2010 ++4:3++ 2. Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is brought out of court detention centre, led away by police escorts RU-RTR - NO ACCESS RUSSIA ARCHIVE: Moscow, Russia - 8 December 2022 ++LOGO AT SOURCE++ ++NIGHT SHOT++ ++4:3++ 3. Tracking of Viktor Bout getting off the plane and embracing his mother and wife ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: San Antonio, Texas, US - 9 December 2022 ++NIGHT SHOT++ ++16:9++ 4. American basketball player Brittney Griner exiting plane and walking away RU-RTR NO ACCESS RUSSIA ARCHIVE: Moscow, Russia - 27 April 2022 ++16:9++ 5. Law enforcement officers getting Trevor Reed out of car 6. Various of Reed being escorted to plane 7. Wide of Reed boarding plane 8. Konstantin Yaroshenko disembarking plane and hugging daughter and wife RU-RTR - NO ACCESS RUSSIA ARCHIVE: 1999 - Moscow, Russia ++4:3++ 9. Wide Igor Sutyagin, agent believed to be returned to the US, taken out of his apartment RU-RTR - NO ACCESS RUSSIA ARCHIVE: 7 April 2004 - Moscow, Russia ++4:3++ 10. Various of Sutyagin behind bars in courtroom talking to journalists RU-RTR - NO ACCESS RUSSIA ARCHIVE: 2004 - Moscow, Russia ++4:3++ 11. Various of Sergey Skripal being arrested RU-RTR - NO ACCESS RUSSIA ARCHIVE: 9 August 2006 - Moscow, Russia ++4:3++ 12. Various of Skripal behind bars in the courtroom COURTESY CHRISTINE CORNELL ARCHIVE: New York, U.S. - 8 July 2010 ++4:3++ 13. STILL courtroom sketch showing Russian agents who had been working in the US (clockwise), Richard Murphy, Cynthia Murphy, Donald Howard Heathfield, Tracey Lee Ann Foley, Mikhail Semenko, Anna Chapman, Vicky Pelaez and Juan Lazaro during their arraignment in Manhattan federal court 14. STILL courtroom sketch showing judge 15. STILL courtroom sketch showing Richard Murphy and Cynthia Murphy ORF - NO ACCESS AUSTRIA ARCHIVE: Vienna, Austria - 9 July 2010 ++4:3++ 15. Zoom in on Russian government plane (on left) and US plane (on right) 16. Long shot of people boarding Russian government plane 17. Long shot of people coming out of US plane STORYLINE: After years of isolation behind the bars and high walls of U.S. penitentiaries and Russian penal colonies, the prisoners will find themselves suddenly free, an emotional moment culminating from long, back-channel negotiations between Washington and Moscow. Sometimes, they see those who are part of the swap as they pass each other on an airport tarmac or, as in the Cold War, the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin to Potsdam. In decades of prisoner exchanges, those released have included spies, journalists, drug and arms dealers, and even a well-known athlete. Thursday's historic exchange was an especially complex affair involving months of talks among several countries before planes flew the large number of prisoners to freedom. Some notable previous swaps: BRITTNEY GRINER AND VIKTOR BOUT The Dec. 9, 2022, exchange of the WNBA star for a Russian arms trader nicknamed the "merchant of death" was notable and controversial for the magnitude of its disparities. Griner had been arrested 10 months earlier on arrival at a Moscow airport when vape canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage. She was convicted of drug charges and sentenced to nine years in prison, a harsh sentence even in low-tolerance Russia. Bout was arrested in 2008 in a U.S. sting operation in Thailand for offering to sell surface-to-air missiles to men masquerading as Colombian rebels. He eventually was extradited to the United States and convicted of charges, including conspiring to kill U.S. nationals, and sentenced to 25 years. Griner's celebrity status made her case highly visible, and the Biden administration worked intensively to win her release, which came at the airport in Abu Dhabi. Critics said Washington had caved in to political pressure by swapping an arms dealer for a famous athlete. TREVOR REED AND KONSTANTIN YAROSHENKO The exchange of Reed and Yaroshenko was notable because it came amid soaring tensions only two months after Russia started its full-scale war in Ukraine. Reed, an ex-Marine, was arrested in 2019 in Moscow for assaulting a police while allegedly drunk. Reed denied the allegations and then-U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan said the case was so preposterous that "even the judge laughed," but Reed got a sentence of nine years. Yaroshenko, a pilot, was arrested in 2010 in Liberia for involvement in a lucrative cocaine distribution scheme. He was extradited to the U.S. and sentenced to 20 years. The April 7, 2022, exchange took place at an airport in Turkey. THE SLEEPERS In June 2010, U.S. officials rounded up 10 Russians alleged to be "sleeper agents" - living under false identities without specific espionage missions - to be activated as needed. Most of the intelligence they gathered apparently was of low significance. One exception was Anna Chapman, who captured attention in the tabloids with her long red hair and model-like features. They Russians were exchanged the next month at the Vienna airport in an unusual swap for four Russians imprisoned in their homeland, including Sergei Skripal, a double agent working with the British intelligence service. Skripal took up residence in the U.K., where he and his daughter suffered near-fatal nerve agent poisoning eight years later that officials blamed on Russia. =========================================================== Clients are reminded to adhere to all listed restrictions and to check the terms of their licence agreements. For further assistance, please contact the AP Archive on: Tel +44(0)2074827482 Email: info@aparchive.com. 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