Spy swap

US chose people to exchange Russia's failed spies on the basis of health and humanitarian issues. Those words are alien to the Russian government and American choices for people they want in exchange must have come as a surprise. Some of my friends were outraged by the lack of any mentioning of Khodorkovsky in this story but i feel the release of Khodorkovsky is so not on the cards that any suggestion of it from the US side would have appeared foolish.