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Miriam Butorin was alleged to attend Taylor Swift’s live performance on Friday for her thirteenth birthday. She is lacking it, however for the easiest motive.
Miriam’s mom, Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, was launched Thursday from Russian detention in a historic prisoner swap.
The discharge of the 47-year-old journalist for the US-backed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was a part of a complex prisoner swap between Russia, the US and different Western nations involving 24 detainees in complete, together with fellow freed People Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan. Kurmasheva had been detained in October 2023 and located responsible of spreading false details about the Russian military – prices her household and employer deny.
Kurmasheva’s household joined President Joe Biden on the White Home on Thursday, the place he shared the news that she was on her manner again to the USA. There, the president led the gang in singing comfortable birthday to Miriam.
Minutes earlier than midnight, in an extremely emotional scene, she was reunited together with her mom on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
Kurmasheva was the ultimate freed American to emerge from the plane that touched down late Thursday. She hugged Biden and the president pressed his brow to hers. Kurmasheva additionally greeted Vice President Kamala Harris earlier than working to her daughters and husband.
When CNN spoke with Kurmasheva’s household in mid-July, her husband, Pavel Butorin, had talked about the live performance tickets.
“We had been so assured that she would get again to us that I purchased Taylor Swift tickets…in June or July…for August 2024,” Butorin stated on the time. “Little did we all know that she can be arrested and brought away from us.”
Only a matter of weeks in the past, there was little signal of Kurmasheva being launched from Russian detention – and of the household with the ability to attend the live performance in Warsaw collectively.
Though they’re lacking Friday’s live performance, Butorin expressed confidence the household would nonetheless get to go to a Swift live performance sooner or later.
Thursday, he stated, was an unbelievable day.