Panic, Anger, Tears: Evan Gershkovich's Uneasy Journey After Russian Jail
He says the FSB used a fabricated espionage case to make him a bargaining chip in a prisoner swap that freed him after 16 months.
- In 2023, Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Yekaterinburg when masked FSB agents surrounded him at a restaurant, an experience he described as being "lured into a trap."
- Gershkovich soon realized he was not being interrogated or tortured—common tactics used on spies—meaning he was being treated as a "valuable hostage" rather than a true enemy of the state.
- The journalist correctly predicted Moscow planned to swap him for Vadim Krasikov, an assassin serving a life sentence in Germany, giving him a unique way to stay "stable and disciplined in prison."
- Freed on August 1, 2024, Gershkovich described a moment of "pure joy," though he noted the subsequent difficulty of adjusting to normal life after the "really isolating experience" of detention.
- Regarding a return to Russia, Gershkovich expressed hope to visit one day, though he remains skeptical that the government succeeding Russian President Vladimir Putin will offer significant improvements.
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An American Journalist Imprisoned as a Spy in Russia
Evan Gershkovich, a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal who was convicted on false charges of espionage, talks with David Remnick about his time in a Russian prison for The New Yorker Radio Hour.
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