Bard and Smolny College Graduate Released From Russia in Historic Prisoner Swap
August 02, 2024
August 02, 2024
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, New York, Aug. 2 -- Bard College issued the following agency statement on Aug. 1, 2024:
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We are pleased to announce that today Alexandra "Sasha" Skochilenko, Bard and Smolny College class of 2017, was released together with other political prisoners incarcerated in Russia. Skochilenko had been imprisoned since March 2022 for the act of placing anti-war leaflets, disguised as price tags, on goods in a grocery store in Saint Petersburg, . . .
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We are pleased to announce that today Alexandra "Sasha" Skochilenko, Bard and Smolny College class of 2017, was released together with other political prisoners incarcerated in Russia. Skochilenko had been imprisoned since March 2022 for the act of placing anti-war leaflets, disguised as price tags, on goods in a grocery store in Saint Petersburg, . . .