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Freed Dissidents Aren't Thrilled With All Terms of Their Release

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Ilya Yashin , who was serving an 8.5-year sentence for denouncing Russia 's war in Ukraine , says he'd repeatedly expressed a wish of not being part of any prisoner exchange.

Other freed dissidents have said Russian authorities kept their travel documents, "presumably in order to make it more difficult for them to ever reenter Russia legally".

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