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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 ...
Kurmasheva was handed a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence last month during a closed-door hearing in Russia the same day Gershkovich was sentenced. Kurmasheva, a Prague-based journalist for the ...
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.
Evan Gershkovich; Brittney Griner; K. Alsu Kurmasheva ... Alsu Kurmasheva; R. Arrest of Trevor Reed; W. Paul Whelan This page was last edited on 1 January 2023, at 21 ...