Inside Evan Gershkovich’s 16 Months in Russian Prisons
His memoir describes how Russian authorities accused him of espionage, then held him for 491 days before a 2024 prisoner swap.
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The Ghosts of Gulag Survivors Live On in Evan Gershkovich’s Prison Memoir
On August 1, 2024, the world awoke to joyous news of a prisoner swap, freeing 16 prisoners from Russia and Belarus and 10 Russians from prisons in the United States and several other Western countries.
For 491 days Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal is a hostage of the Kremlin. In August 2024 the American is released in a spectacular prisoner exchange against the "animal garden killer". In his new book he dissects the Putin system.
The trouble with loving Russia: Evan Gershkovich's memoir seeks sentimentality in a lost country
By the end of his pre-trial detention at Moscow's infamous Lefortovo Prison, American journalist Evan Gershkovich had developed a curious rapport with the FSB investigator tasked with proving he was a spy. "Most people break after four months or so, but you're still holding strong — a year in," the investigator told him, and the two raised their cigarettes in a toast to "having tried to find common ground." Gershkovich writes about many such mom…
Reporter Evan Gershkovich Discusses Experience in a Russian Prison on False Espionage Charges
Evan Gershkovich, a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, discussed his imprisonment in Russia on fabricated espionage charges and the risks journalists working under authoritarian governments face during an October 21 event hosted at International House by UChicago’s Institute of Politics. Gershkovich recounted the events leading up to his March 2023 arrest, his efforts to continue his reporting from a Russian prison, and the politics surroundin…
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