The Story of One Russian Antiwar Artist Freed in the Big Prisoner Swap
More on Aleksandra Skochilenko, a pacifist artist who was looking at seven years in a penal colony for leaving antiwar messages in a supermarket.
On August 1, 16 prisoners were freed from Russia in exchange for eight Russians held by Western countries. One of those freed from Russia was Aleksandra Skochilenko, 33, an artist who had been senten…


