🎧 Listen: In today’s episode of The Journal podcast, JoeWSJ and drewhinshaw discuss Russia’s arrest of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich, his reporting in the country and what's next
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Joe Parkinson: And Evan was there in a yellow jacket being marched through a door very quickly, still wearing the baggy blue jeans that we often saw him wearing in the Bureau.Joe Parkinson: I'd say shock, outrage, fear. And there are moments where a vision of him comes to you, where he is and what he's doing. And I would say it all still feels incredibly surreal and unreal, and I can't believe that he's there.
Joe Parkinson: Basically the game is in extra time, I guess what you guys would call overtime, and he comes off the bench, takes the penalty and scores the winning goal. And there's this incredible picture of him that's still on his school website where he's kind of running away from everyone trying to sort of rugby tackle him in celebration, and his team lifted the cup.
Drew Hinshaw: One day these colleagues start to kind of say to him, "Hey, you speak Russian. Your parents have this history in Russia. You kind of understand it, at least from the point of view of an immigrate.
Joe Parkinson: And in the early days of the conflict got himself into Belarus and down to the border with Ukraine where he was able to watch Russian soldiers who'd been fighting, coming back over the border to be treated. He was the only western reporter in that location able to get that story.
Joe Parkinson: He thought a lot as he was reporting about how difficult it was becoming to tell the story, and he wrote this very, very vivid piece about how on the surface in Moscow a few months into the war, you could be forgiven for thinking that a lot of things looked the same, the sanctions were yet to bite, people were going about their business. But under the surface there was this tension.
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