The U.S. reporter is among several involved in a prisoner swap with Russia happening Thursday
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in the glass defendant's booth in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow on Oct. 10, 2023.Evan Gershkovich landed what he told friends he regarded as a dream assignment in Moscow in 2022 – reporting for a famo us news paper on one of the world’s top stories, at the age of just 31.
His employer and the U.S. government said he was innocent and had been subjected to a sham trial. The Kremlin maintained he had been caught spying “red-handed.” In his regular correspondence with the outside world, Gershkovich poked fun at his life in jail. His chief request remained gossip from friends and colleagues.
During his years in Moscow, Gershkovich honed his knowledge of a language he said had been patchy before leaving America. Summers were spent at a dacha country house in the forest west of Moscow, while he kept warm during Russia’s winters at the capital’s steamy bathhouses.Gershkovich got the career break he craved in January 2022 when the Wall Street Journal hired him. He was just weeks into his posting when Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 of that year.
Based in London and periodically visiting Moscow for reporting trips, he was one of a few Western journalists to continue to travel there as new laws imposed stiff prison sentences for anyone found guilty of “discrediting” the armed forces or spreading false information about them.
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