Russia has threatened the lives of dissidents it freed in a historic exchange on Thursday (1 August), while hundreds of political prisoners remain in jail despite the breakthrough.
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called those freed "enemies" and urged them to stay out of Russia.
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.