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Pablo Gonzalez, a freelance Spanish-Russian reporter, was arrested by the Polish authorities on suspicion of spying in February 2022 on the Polish-Ukraine border — this month he was 'swapped' back to Russia as part of the prisoner-hostage exchange (Photo: Wikimedia)

The Gonzalez case: Russia-West prisoner-swap rumbles on in Poland

As memories fade of the pictures of US president Joe Biden joyfully greeting a released Wall Street Journal reporter, and Vladimir Putin delightedly welcoming Vadim Krasikov, jailed for murder by a German court, in a Russian spies for western hostages swap, controversy continues in Poland as to the whys and wherefores of its role in the east west exchange.

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Krzysztof Bobinski is a board member of the Society of Journalists, in Warsaw, an independent NGO. He was the Financial Times correspondent in Warsaw from 1976 to 2000. He worked at the Polish Institute of Foreign Affairs (PISM) and was co-chair of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum.

Pablo Gonzalez, a freelance Spanish-Russian reporter, was arrested by the Polish authorities on suspicion of spying in February 2022 on the Polish-Ukraine border — this month he was 'swapped' back to Russia as part of the prisoner-hostage exchange (Photo: Wikimedia)

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Author Bio

Krzysztof Bobinski is a board member of the Society of Journalists, in Warsaw, an independent NGO. He was the Financial Times correspondent in Warsaw from 1976 to 2000. He worked at the Polish Institute of Foreign Affairs (PISM) and was co-chair of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum.

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