Russian President Vladimir Putin, talking after preliminary outcomes confirmed him with 87.2% assist within the election that ended Sunday, confirmed at a information convention that he’d agreed to swap opposition chief Alexey Navalny for unidentified folks held in Western jails days earlier than the anti-Kremlin critic’s loss of life final month in an Arctic jail camp, given that he by no means returned to Russia. (Supply: Russian Pool by way of APTN)
