‘This is happiness’ – Freed Russian political prisoner reunites with wife he married behind bars
Tatiana Usmanova burst into tears when Andrey Pivovarov, her husband, called her and said he had been included in the Russian prisoner exchange.Ms Usmanova was at her home in Moscow, where she has lived throughout her husband’s last three years serving in a Russian penal colony. When she heard the news, she immediately booked flights to Turkey and then to Germany, chasing after her husband as he was transported to freedom.Mr Pivovarov, 42, is the head of the Russian opposition group Open Russia,...