Russia had freed WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner in a prisoner swap. In exchange, the US released convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, a scholar of the Black experience in the Soviet Union and Russia at the University of Pennsylvania, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about the release.
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