The 32-year-old American has spent a year locked up on bogus charges. His friends and fellow journalists are deeply worried for him, but won’t give in to despair.
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesThe U.S. ambassador to Russia, Lynne Tracy, recently visited our colleague, Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich, at the Federal Security Service’s toughest prison in Moscow.Gershkovich was in “good health and remains in good spirits,” the ambassador said, which was the best news from inside the “political prison,” as Russians call the FSB’s investigative pre-trial detention site, Lefortovo.Friday March 29 marks one w
Yulia Navalnaya’s announcement that she will continue her husband’s fight has sparked a degree of hope in some dissidents, despite the fact that the Kremlin’s threats will prevent her from doing politics in Russia
A priest in St. Petersburg has suffered a stroke after being arrested and detained for planning a memorial service for the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in Russia.