Gershkovich’s arrest is regarded as no less than a hostage-taking.
Press freedoms around the world are under attack, as with Monitor contributor Fahad Shah, a Kashmiri journalist who remains behind bars in northern India for his reporting.Mr. Gershkovich is “ridiculous” and has called for his immediate release. Other Americans remain in Russian prisons.The Biden administration says the spying charge against Mr. She was released in exchange for notorious Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout. basketball star Brittney Griner on drug charges serves as a sobering reminder of the country’s hardball tactics. Russia’s 10-month detention last year of U.S. Today, the Russian war in Ukraine has sent relations plunging, with no bottom in sight. Daniloff was released.Then, U.S.-Soviet relations were moving in a largely positive direction. A Soviet acquaintance had handed him an envelope containing maps marked “top secret,” and off he went to the notorious Lefortovo Prison. Gershkovich’s arrest in the city of Yekaterinburg, 1,000 miles east of Moscow, is thought to be the first detention of an American reporter in Russia since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.I remember well the 1986 arrest in Moscow of Nick Daniloff, an American reporter for U.S.
Russian authorities’ detention March 29 of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on charges of “espionage” represents a return to Soviet-style tactics at a time of deteriorating U.S.-Russian relations. We also have a team of reporters looking at what the indictment means up and down the political system, from party leaders to voters.But we cannot allow this historic moment to obscure other profoundly important news. There’s much to sort through, including the legal and political ramifications.We offer two stories today: first, a look at the third and climactic act of “a narrative arc devoted to the rise, fall, and possible redemption” of a former American president – now a candidate for 2024. We are living through history, the first indictment of a former United States president. Former President Donald Trump’s indictment Thursday will surely dominate headlines for weeks and months to come.
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