Evan Gershkovich: My Time as a Prisoner in Putin’s Russia
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Evan Gershkovich: My Time as a Prisoner in Putin’s Russia
“Well, there’s nothing much I can do. I’m here, I can’t get out of here, and honestly, it’s interesting. I get to see the system from the inside. I’m a reporter, after all—a voyeur—and this is the ultimate voyeurism.”That’s what Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich told himself at the end of his first 24 hours in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, where he landed shortly after the FSB, Russia’s primary domestic security and intelligence agency,…
Unfairly accused of espionage, the former American correspondent of the Wall Street Journal in Russia was detained for 16 months in a Moscow prison in 2023 and 2024. In an attempt to overcome the trauma of this experience, he decided to investigate his own story. His book, "This beautiful cursed country", was released on 28 October.
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Evan Gershkovich spent 500 days in Russian detention. The secret service presents him as "spy." It is clear quickly: it's about more than him.
Evan Gershkovich spent 500 days in Russian detention. The secret service presents him as "spy." It is clear quickly: it's about more than him.
First cheated, then sentenced: For almost 500 days Evan Gershkovich was a prisoner in Russia, the US journalist served as a pawn of thumb for the Kremlin. Now Gershkovich reports about his detention – and how the Putin system works.
Evan Gershkovich was detained in Russia for 491 days and was released by a prisoner exchange.
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