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February 12, 2025

Prisoner Swapped Freed American Diplomat Praises Putin Along With Trump

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

An informative new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first notes Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a news conference this morning: “Regarding the direct question about communication, President Trump has repeatedly affirmed his readiness to make phone calls and meet in person...When asked about his reaction to such statements from the US leader, President Putin indicated that he is also open to this...As you might expect, the decision will ultimately be made by the presidents themselves”.

Last evening, this report notes, President Donald Trump praised President Putin with the declaration “Russia has been very kind to us” upon his greeting prisoner swapped freed American diplomat Marc Fogel at the White House, who himself declared that President Putin “was very generous and statesmanlike” in granting him a pardon.

Beginning in 2011, this report continues, Marc Fogel and his wife Jane Fogel were accredited American diplomats for the Obama Regime at the United States Embassy in Moscow protected by diplomatic immunity—shortly after President Trump assumed power in January 2021, however, it saw Marc Fogel losing his diplomatic immunity in May 2021.

In August 2021, this report details, Marc Fogel and his wife Jane arrived at the Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, which was where security personnel with sniffer dogs went through his luggage and discovered 17 grams of prescription marijuana hidden in his contact lens case—Marc Fogel claimed the drug was used for medical purposes and said he was “unaware of Russia’s ban on medical marijuana”, that made no sense since he had lived in Russia for ten years—the Russian Interior Ministry revealed the drugs were “carefully disguised” and that the “marijuana was packaged in contact lens cases, and cannabis oil was contained in e-cigarette cartridges”—the Russian Interior Ministry charged Marc Fogel with “large-scale drug smuggling” and “large-scale illegal drug storage without a commercial purpose”, then he was moved to a prison camp because of his homosexuality.

On 17 June 2022, this report notes, the Khimki City Court for the Moscow Regime sentenced American diplomat Marc Fogel to 14 years in a high-security penal colony—on 25 August 2022, the Moscow Regional Court upheld the verdict against American diplomat Marc Fogel—after which the Biden Regime announced: “Marc Fogel is not classified as wrongly detained by the United States”.

Following Russian lawyer Dmitry Ovsyannikov announcing about his American diplomat client Marc Fogel: “Fogel has been released...He is now in aboard a plane, and will arrive in the United States in approximately five hours...We don’t know reasons behind his release, whether it was a pardon or something else”, this report concludes, top Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov revealed: “Intense talks between the United States and Russia led to both the release of Fogel as well as one of the citizens of the Russian Federation currently held in detention facilities in the United States...This citizen of the Russian Federation will also be returned to Russia in the coming days”—and was a President Putin-President Trump prisoner swap revelation joined with the news: “Former Russian Deputy Central Bank Governor Ksenia Yudaeva, who is under U.S. sanctions, is working in person at the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington...Yudaeva has moved to Washington after the U.S. Treasury Department granted her permission to transition from remote to in-person duties as Russia's IMF executive director”.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

President Trump Welcomes Prisoner Released by Russia, Marc Fogel to the White House
https://youtu.be/p8xzbrfIriU

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