[ad_1] Evan Gershkovich. Illustration. Sreejith R. Kumar Evan Gershkovich was on a reporting assignment in Yekaterinburg, some 1,400 km off Moscow, when Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) picked him up from a local bistro on March 29, 2023. The press accreditation by the Russian Foreign Ministry notwithstanding, the FSB slapped espionage charges against the 32-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter…
[ad_1] President Vladimir Putin strode along the red carpet between two rows of rifle-toting honour guards and warmly greeted intelligence operatives freed in the biggest prisoner swap with the West since the Cold War. “The Motherland hasn’t forgotten about you for a minute,” Mr. Putin said, embracing each of them after they walked down the…
[ad_1] Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Russian citizens released after the Russian-US prisoner swap in Turkiye at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, on August 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: via PTI The Kremlin said on Friday that Vadim Krasikov, a hitman returned by Germany in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War,…
[ad_1] The United States (the U.S.) and Russia completed a 24-person prisoner swap on August 1, the largest in post-Soviet history, with Moscow releasing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan in a multinational deal that set some two dozen people free, according to officials in Turkey, where the exchange took…
[ad_1] Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is on trial on spying charges, smiles inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing in Yekaterinburg, Russia. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed American journalists on July 18 for delaying talks between his U.S. counterparts about a possible prisoner exchange involving…
