{"id":1736060,"date":"2022-11-12T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1736060"},"modified":"2022-11-12T09:18:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T14:18:39","slug":"russia-unwilling-to-talk-brittney-griner-prisoner-swap-despite-joe-bidens-plea-to-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-unwilling-to-talk-brittney-griner-prisoner-swap-despite-joe-bidens-plea-to-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Unwilling to Talk Brittney Griner Prisoner Swap Despite Joe Biden\u2019s Plea to Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-unwilling-to-talk-brittney-griner-prisoner-swap-despite-joe-bidens-plea-to-putin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1736060&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Russia reportedly remains unwilling to negotiate a prisoner swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner, despite President Joe Biden\u2019s plea to Vladimir Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/joe-biden-on-brittney-griner-my-intention-is-to-get-her-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">earlier this week<\/a> to discuss the matter more seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Griner is being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/brittney-griner-being-moved-to-penal-colony-used-for-exiling-prisoners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">transferred to a penal colony<\/a> to begin her 9-year sentence. She was arrested last February at Sheremetyevo International Airport for carrying a vape cartridge containing THC oils, and convicted in August.<\/p>\n<p>US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the US put together \u2018a series of proposals\u2019 for the Kremlin, which has not engaged on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we work to secure Brittney Griner\u2019s release, we expect Russian authorities to provide our Embassy officials with regular access to all US citizens detained in Russia, including Brittney, as is their obligation,\u2019 the US said in a statement Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Ensuring the health and welfare of US citizen detainees in Russia is a priority, and we will continue to press for fair and transparent treatment for them all.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-1024x578-1.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Biden and Brittney Griner\" class=\"wp-image-438506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-1024x578-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-768x433-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-192x108.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-384x216-1.jpg 384w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-364x205-1.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-561x316-1.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-1122x633-1.jpg 1122w, https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-265x150.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-531x300-1.jpg 531w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-728x411-1.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-608x343-1.jpg 608w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-758x428-1.jpg 758w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-1152x650-1.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-85x48.jpg 85w, https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-170x96.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Biden-and-Griner-WP-600x339-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Biden-and-Griner-WP.jpg 1200w\" \/><figcaption>President Joe Biden and Brittney Griner. (Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-brittney-griner-on-the-move-biden-expresses-hope\">Brittney Griner on the move, Biden expresses hope<\/h2>\n<p>On the same day Griner was supposedly being moved into exile, President Biden reiterated that his \u201cintention is to bring her home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, Russia reportedly<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/president-biden-hopeful-russia-more-willing-negotiate-brittney-griners-release-midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> still won\u2019t engage <\/a>as Griner heads to a remote Labor Camp notorious for abusive treatment of inmates.<\/p>\n<p>Penal colonies are also known as \u2018exile colonies,\u2019 and are used for just that \u2013 cutting off prisoners from the outside world. They are usually some sort of settlement that is completely separate them from the general population, and can often be an island or distant colonial territory.<\/p>\n<p>While Biden said earlier this week they\u2019ve had multiple discussions with the Russians, it appears those conversations haven\u2019t gone very far. <\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s latest report suggests the two sides remain miles apart in any deal as the prospects of bringing Griner back to the US look bleaker by the day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia reportedly remains unwilling to negotiate a prisoner swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner, despite President Joe Biden\u2019s plea to Vladimir Putin earlier this week to discuss the matter more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1736063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1736060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1736063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}