“It would be wrong to discuss now possible exchanges that differ from those exchange schemes that we have already offered to the Americans, in the context of Yaroshenko other names were also called. Americans are aware of the options (exchange. - RT ) that we would be willing to consider, ”Ryabkov quotes TASS.
He explained that this was done through diplomatic correspondence.
“But the response, at least, of the response that we would like to count on, taking into account the severity of the humanitarian incident and all the circumstances related to Konstantin Yaroshenko being in prison (we did not receive. - RT ),” Ryabkov added.
At the end of May, in the Russian Consulate General in New York, they said that Yaroshenko “assessed his state of health as stable, but clarified that he didn’t feel any changes after a simple bowel operation, and therefore he was scheduled for an additional examination.”
The Russian was convicted in the United States in 2011 on charges of conspiring to smuggle drugs.
An American court sentenced him to 20 years in a general prison.