A friend of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, imprisoned in Russia on espionage charges, describes him as generous, committed and professional.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, he decided to live in London but regularly traveled to Russia for reporting trips, according to Reuters.
Sauer said that while Gershkovich was a typical American-raised kid, he never lost his fascination with his parents' home nation. When an opportunity at The Moscow Times came about in 2017, he jumped at it. He was arrested by Russia's Federal Security Service Thursday while reporting in Yekaterinburg, which is roughly 800 miles east of Moscow, and detained on espionage charges. The FSB is considered the successor to the Soviet’s notorious KGB. Russian state news agency TASS has reported that Gershkovich was ordered to be held in custody until May 29. The New York Times reported that if past cases are any indication, he could be held in a high-security prison for more than a year.
"We wish Western journalists will talk about this more. I'm sure they will to elevate again the suppression of freedom of speech by Putin," he told Fox News Digital."The timing of the arrest looks like a calculated provocation to embarrass the U.S. and intimidate the foreign press still working in Russia. The Kremlin has cowed domestic reporting in Russia, so foreign correspondents are the last independent sources of news," the paper's editorial board wrote.
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