Her lawyer, Svetlana Sidorkina, told Tass that Ms. A video showing Ms. Vashukevich being manhandled by Russian police officers at Sheremetyevo Airport, which serves Moscow, stirred outrage among her followers on social media and those of Aleksei Navalny, a Russian anti-corruption campaigner who posted video footage of the yacht trip on his website last year.
Deripaska has been under sanctions imposed by the United States along with other Russian magnates close to the Kremlin. Navalny said on his website Monday that leaked audio recordings showed that Mr. Manafort, orchestrated the arrest of Ms. She was first detained in Thailand last year and then seized by Russian police officers last Thursday at the airport in Moscow.
Manafort, who has pleaded guilty to charges bought by the team of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, have made the oligarch a bit character in various tangled story lines around the investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia ahead of the presidential election. The surprise release on Tuesday of the detained Belarusian escort followed media reports that Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Ms.
Some interpreted that comment as a dig at Ms. While in Thailand, Ms. Vashukevich claimed that she had audio recordings that could link Russia with Mr. Log In.
