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Journalists Take Part In 24-Hour Read-A-Thon To Mark First Anniversary Of Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich’s Detention In Russia


Gershkovich is being held on espionage charges that the U.S. government calls "fiction."

It was one year ago on Friday that The Wall Street Journal ‘s Evan Gershkovich was detained in Russia on espionage charges that the U.S. government has called “fiction.” Fox Nation also is debuting a special today, Prisoner of Putin, featuring the network’s senior correspondent Steve Harrigan, who was formerly based in Moscow, as well as Gershkovich’s colleagues at the Journal, Gordon Fairclough and Paul Beckett, and close friends Jeremy Berke and Sam Silverman. President Joe Biden said at the State of the Union address that the U.S. is working “around the clock” to bring Gershkovich home, along with another detained American, Paul Whelan.

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