The release of Western hostages from Russian captivity is a near-term success for the Biden administration — but it is purchased at great cost. By trading Russian spies and criminals for wrongfully imprisoned Americans and dissidents, the deal risks encouraging Russia and other authoritarian regimes to take more hostages. The scale of the prisoner swap...
American reporter Evan Gershkovich and Marine veteran Paul Whelan were among four former prisoners released from Russia yesterday who finally stepped foot on American soil again Thursday night. A plane carrying the Americans freed by Russia during the large prisoner swap landed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, greeted by President Joe Biden and Vice...
The journalism community rallied around news that Wall Street Journal reporterEvan Gershkovich is coming home after nearly 500 days of imprisonment after being wrongfully convicted on bogus spying charges in Russia. “Evan is free and on his way home,” Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour and Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker said in a joint...
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was imprisoned in Russia for over 16 months, made a bold proposal before his release in a prisoner swap on Thursday, asking whether he could interview Russian President Vladimir Putin after being freed. Gershkovich made the request while filling out a mandated official request for presidential clemency that...
In the biggest prisoner swap with Moscow since the Cold War, the Biden administration on Thursday secured the liberation of 16 American and German nationals held prisoner in Russia and Belarus in exchange for the release of eight Russians. The top of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s list was hit man Vadim Krasikov, who used the...
The Wall Street Journal saw one of its own unjustly imprisoned across the world for nearly 500 grueling days. Now it’s celebrating the freedom of reporter Evan Gershkovich, who had been wrongfully detained in Russia since last March. Gershkovich, American veteran Paul Whelan, Alsu Kurmasheva and Vladimir Kara-Murza, a green card holder, are coming home...
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is free. Gershkovich and American veteran Paul Whelan are in U.S. custody after a massive swap of political prisoners involving the U.S. and Russia, a senior administration official confirmed to Fox News on Thursday morning. Alsu Kurmasheva, another American citizen, and Vladimir Kara-Murza, a green card holder, were also...
A top Republican warned on Thursday that the Biden administration’s choice to trade Russian criminals for detained Americans – including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Marine veteran Paul Whelan – could be sending a “dangerous message” to Russian President Vladimir Putin. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, joined others in celebrating...
Dozens of Russian mercenaries fighting for the notorious Wagner group in northern Africa were massacred over the weekend in Mali in an apparent ambush. Footage reviewed by Fox News Digital showed dozens of Russian soldiers, some in varying degrees of undress, many collapsed on top of one another, strewn around burnt vehicles and apparently dead...
Two weeks ago, a U.S. intelligence official — commenting on the recentElection Security Updateissued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) —suggestedthat Russia prefers former President Trump to win the presidency in November. As a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer who specializes in Russia and Putin, I totally disagree. Like many other...
