Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On August 1, 2024, Kurmasheva, alongside Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, and various other individuals, was released in a 26 person prisoner exchange. [22] [23] After her release, Kurmasheva attended Post Isolation Support Activities, a 10-day program offered by the Department of Defense to help former hostages acclimate back to regular life. [24]
Evan Gershkovich (born October 26, 1991) [1] is an American journalist and reporter at The Wall Street Journal covering Russia. Gershkovich graduated from Bowdoin College , majoring in philosophy and English and writing in student newspapers.
Among those released were three American citizens: Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine; Gershkovich and Whelan had each received sixteen-year sentences for espionage, becoming a cause célèbre in the U.S. [4] [5]
Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, Vladimir Kara-Murza and Alsu Kurmasheva were freed from Russian captivity in one the biggest prisoner exchanges since the Cold War. These are the U.S. residents ...
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan and Russian American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva were welcomed back warmly at the military facility by President Joe ...
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan and Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva have landed in the United States, following of the biggest prisoner ...
When Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva was blocked from leaving Russia last June, her family never expected that she would still be in Russian detention than a year later.
Alsu Kurmasheva. Alsu Kurmasheva, 47, is a Russian-American journalist and editor at the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. She was detained by authorities in June 2023 as she was visiting relatives ...