Evan Gershkovich

12.25.2024, 14:00

Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond

The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era

By Evan Gershkovich | With Drew HinshawFollow , Joe ParkinsonFollow and Thomas Grove, The Wall Street Journal

Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond

08.01.2024, 18:37

Putin Wanted His Hit Man Back. A Mother Wanted Her Journalist Son to Come Home.

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.

By Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw, Bojan Pancevski and Aruna Viswanatha, The Wall Street Journal

Putin Wanted His Hit Man Back. A Mother Wanted Her Journalist Son to Come Home.

08.01.2024, 18:28

WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich Is Free

Release of 32-year-old American from Russia secured as part of largest East-West prisoner swap since Cold War

By Drew Hinshaw , Joe Parkinson and Aruna Viswanatha, The Wall Street Journal

08.01.2024, 16:46

Russia to Release WSJ Reporter Gershkovich, The Guardian Reports

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

07.19.2024, 17:15