Today marks journalist and U.S. citizen Evan Gershkovich's 100th day being detained by Russian government authorities.
on espionage charges, though President Joe Biden's administration vowed in December 2022 to continue efforts to bring him home.
"It was earth-shattering," Sam Patterson, who was roommates with Gershkovich in their senior year at Maine's Bowdoin College, told ABC News in April. "It's something that we had asked Evan about, whether he was ever concerned about something like this happening, and so to see his name on a New York Times news alert, I just couldn't believe it. I really could not believe it.
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