The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era
The secret negotiations to free The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich unfolded on three continents, involving spy agencies, billionaires, political power players and his fiercest advocate—his mom.
Release of 32-year-old American from Russia secured as part of largest East-West prisoner swap since Cold War
The Guardian reports Gershkovich has been freed from a Russian prison, adding that sources familiar with the situation and the planned prisoner exchange confirmed to the Guardian that a major swap would take place on Thursday in a location outside Russia
Sentencing came after a secret trial that the U.S. has condemned as a sham