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Evan Gershkovich

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Geopolitics
    Russians released in prisoner swap call for others to be freed

    Former prisoners of conscience say hundreds remain in jail, many for protesting against the war in Ukraine

    From left, freed Russian prisoners Ilya Yashin, Andrei Pivovarov and Vladimir Kara-Murza, approach a press conference in Bonn on Friday
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    The behind-the-scenes deal to secure Evan Gershkovich’s freedom

    Most complex east-west exchange in decades was almost scuppered by death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny

    Evan Gershkovich stands inside a glass defendant’s cage during the verdict announcement at the Sverdlovsk Regional Court in Yekaterinburg in July
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Journalist Evan Gershkovich returns to US in Russia prisoner swap

    Russia, US and other countries exchange 26 prisoners in largest transfer since the cold war

    US journalist Evan Gershkovich embraces his mother Ella Milman as President Joe Biden looks on at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Thursday after his release from Russian prison
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Russia jails reporter Evan Gershkovich for 16 years for ‘espionage’

    Conviction of Wall Street Journal journalist seen as potential prelude to prisoner swap

    Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in court in Ekaterinburg, Russia, on Friday
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Russia begins trial of Evan Gershkovich on espionage charges

    Secret proceedings begin against Wall Street Journal reporter as US continues to press Moscow for his release

    Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich standing in a glass cage at a district court in Ekaterinburg, Russia
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Russia
    Evan Gershkovich to be tried on espionage charges in Russia

    Prosecutors file formal indictment a year after US journalist was arrested in Ekaterinburg

    Evan Gershkovich stands inside a transparent cage in a court room
  • Friday, 29 March, 2024
    US foreign policy
    Biden vows to keep pushing for release of US reporter held in Russia

    Congress also condemns Moscow’s year-long detention of WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich

    Evan Gershkovich behind a glass panel during a court hearing in Moscow on Tuesday
  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    Alexei Navalny
    Germany cools on Russian prisoner swap after Navalny death

    Berlin unlikely to release convicted killer Vadim Krasikov in exchange including US journalist Evan Gershkovich

    Flowers around a makeshift memorial to Alexei Navalny outside the former Russian consulate in Frankfurt, western Germany
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    Russian politics
    Putin hints at swapping US reporter Gershkovich for Russian assassin

    Wall Street Journal journalist has been held in Moscow for almost one year

    Evan Gershkovich in a Moscow court
  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
    Polina Ivanova
    Letters to Evan: my friend in a Moscow jail

    We chronicled Russia together, hopeful about its future. Now the Wall Street Journal reporter has been in prison for a month

    .Illustration of a person in the outline of a box, with four envelopes swooping round
  • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
    Evan Gershkovich loses appeal against pre-trial detention

    Wall Street Journal reporter is being held in an FSB prison on espionage charges

    WSJ correspondent Evan Gershkovich standing in the glass cage typically used to hold defendants in Russian criminal proceedings at a court hearing in Moscow
  • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
    Evan Gershkovich faces complex path to release from Russian jail

    Former US officials warn that Moscow will demand a high price for return of Wall Street Journal reporter

    Evan Gershkovich is escorted by officers to a bus
  • Friday, 7 April, 2023
    Russia formally charges detained WSJ reporter with espionage

    Evan Gershkovich categorically denies all accusations, state news agencies report

    Journalist Evan Gershkovich
  • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
    ‘No doubt’ WSJ reporter is wrongfully detained by Russia, US says

    Comments by Antony Blinken come as state department aims to step up efforts to obtain release of Evan Gershkovich

    Evan Gershkovich
  • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Russia’s cowardly act

    Moscow captures a journalist in the latest attempt to control the narrative of a failed war

    A man in a baseball cap stands in front of a seaport
  • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
    Russian politics
    Blinken demands release of US journalist in call with Lavrov

    Secretary of state says detention of Evan Gershkovich in Moscow is ‘unacceptable’

    Evan Gershkovich
  • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Russia detains Wall Street Journal reporter on suspicion of spying

    Evan Gershkovich, a US national, is accused of a crime that carries a 20-year sentence

    Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich
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