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A Precise Ritual Even for Farting – an American Journalist Was Held Hostage by Putin and Learned Strange Rules

Summary by Ilta-Sanomat
Journalist Evan Gershkovich became a "commodity" of Vladimir Putin's administration.

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Journalist Evan Gershkovich became a "commodity" of Vladimir Putin's administration.

·Helsinki, Finland
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Evan Gershkovich, a US correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, was released from a Russian prison in a prisoner exchange.

·Helsinki, Finland
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In March 2023, the Russian security service FSB detained Evan Gershkovich, a US journalist for the Wall Street Journal, in Yekaterinburg during an interview. Gershkovich was told that he was suspected of espionage. This was reportedly the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union that Russia had detained a Western journalist on suspicion of espionage. Gershkovich was taken to a Russian prison, where he spent about 16 months before being rele…

In an interview with Real Time and Radio Liberty, American journalist The Wall Street Journal Evan Gerskovic calls out the name of a man who in Russia is personally involved in the selection of foreign nationals for arrest and subsequent exchange with Western countries, and explains how the FSB machine works to turn people into a change coin. "I did this to you, and you are under my command." Who is Dmitri Minaev after being released in August 2…

·Prague, Czechia
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currenttime.tv broke the news in Prague, Czechia on Friday, November 6, 2026.
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