The Kremlin says that another exchange of prisoners between Russia and the US is on the agenda

The Kremlin said Thursday that the idea of ​​a possible new exchange of prisoners between Russia and the United States was on the agenda after Moscow and Washington agreed to work on the restoration of relations at all levels.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov, to journalists’ questions about the possibility of a new exchange, said the conversations between the United States and Russia in Riad had contributed to a general approach between Russia and the United States.

At least 10 Americans remain between bars in Russia, including two that Washington has considered «unfairly arrested.» Moscow released an American citizen, Kalob Byers, days before Russian and American delegations met in the Saudi capital.

Earlier this month, Russia released Marc Fogel, an American school teacher who was serving a 14 -year sentence for drug trafficking after being discovered at a Moscow airport with a small amount of marijuana.

He was released in exchange for Alexander Vinnik, a Russian chief of cybercrime who had declared himself guilty of money laundering, after being extradited from Greece.

The exchange occurred shortly after an exchange of prisoners much larger last August, in which the United States, Germany, Norway, Slovenia, Russia and Belarus participated.

Among those released at that time was Evan Gershkovich, a journalist from the Wall Street Journal who had been imprisoned in Russia for spy charges that he, the newspaper and the US government denied.

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