WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich returns home after grueling imprisonment in Russia
Entering 2024, Evan Gershkovic's future was anything but certain. All Wall Street Journal reporters and their allies saw was indefinite detention at the mercy of a repressive regime that used him as a high-stakes bargaining chip. But a year later, Gershkovic returned home with his family and began reporting again. The nightmarish ordeal began in […]
Evan Gershkovich pens first-person account about spy behind his imprisonment: ‘I never stopped reporting’
The Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich “never stopped reporting” during his harsh imprisonment in Russia. On Thursday, his name appeared where he always prefers to be: as the story's author, rather than the story's subject. Gershkovitch wrote a first-person account. About the identity of the man behind the Kremlin espionage operation that brought him challenges, […]
Evan Gershkovich and other American hostages face thousands in IRS penalties when they return home
U.S. citizens like Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich who are unjustly detained in other countries face large bills from the Internal Revenue Service for unpaid taxes when they return home. Mr. Gershkovic and another American hostage, Paul Whelan, who was released in August, were charged for unpaid taxes and consequential costs incurred while held […]
Bloomberg reportedly fires White House reporter amid furor over broken embargo on Evan Gershkovich deal
Bloomberg News has reportedly fired a prominent White House reporter for breaking a reporting embargo on the prisoner swap that freed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich from a Russian prison. Jennifer Jacobs, the Bloomberg news agency’s senior White House correspondent, was fired on Monday after Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait vowed to discipline staff for […]
Freed US prisoners Gershkovich and Whelan may face ‘disruptive’ trauma, say experts
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Evan Gershkovich freed: Former Iran prisoner calls on US to do better helping hostages re-enter society
As Russia returns wrongfully held hostages in a prisoner swap, a former hostage-taker warns their work is only just beginning. Three US citizens and one US green card holder who had been wrongfully imprisoned in Russia were released from Russia in a prisoner swap on Thursday. The four were Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, Ars Kurmaseva […]
Russia to Consider Allowing Freed Hostage Evan Gershkovich to Interview Vladimir Putin
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that the government was ready to consider a request by freed hostage Evan Gershkovich to meet with President Vladimir Putin. “If such a request is made we will consider it. If we determine that the president needs to give interviews to foreign media, he will do so,” Peskov […]
Putin welcomes Russians freed in prisoner swap with Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan
President Vladimir Putin gave Russian citizens freed in a historic prisoner swap with Western countries a hero’s welcome on Thursday as they disembarked from a plane in Moscow, promising them state rewards and talks about their future. As part of the largest East-West prisoner swap since the end of the Cold War, eight people were […]
Behind the scenes of the prisoner swap to free WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich from Russian prison
Evan Gershkovich served 16 months in a Russian prison before being released on Thursday in the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War, led by the Biden administration. Nearly two weeks ago, Biden announced to the world that he was dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. But just before […]
Incarcerated WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich Sought Exclusive Interview With Putin Prior To His Release
Ahead of his release on Thursday, a jailed Wall Street Journal reporter has requested an exclusive interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, The Wall Street Journal reported. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, 32, said he requested an interview with Putin while filling out an amnesty application shortly before his release in an international prisoner […]