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LAST Thursday, Russia and the West brokered an agreement to release 24 prisoners in the biggest swap deal since the Cold War. Among them was a 42-year-old Spanish journalist who has plied his trade for outlets including La Sexta, Público and Gara, a Basque nationalist newspaper. However, instead of returning to Spain, Pablo Gonzalez was warmly welcomed to Moscow by …

A SPANISH journalist arrested in Poland on suspicion of spying for the Kremlin has landed in Russia as part of a swap deal between Russia and the West described as the most significant since the Cold War. Pablo Gonzalez – real name Pavel Rubstov – had been incarcerated in ‘Poland’s Guantanamo’ since 2022, and was one of eight prisoners Russia …