Mikhail Gurevich, a columnist for the Russian Daily Kommersant, believes that the Western understanding of the arrest of The Wall Street Journal's Russia correspondent Evan Gershkovich on espionage charges as a means of providing Russia with someone to trade for a Russian incarcerated in the U.S. is reasonable but mistaken. Gershkovich's arrest was intended to serve as a
Columnist For Russian Daily 'Kommersant' Mikhail Gurevich wrote that the arrest of WSJ correspondent Gershkovich is a warning to Western journalists not to leave Moscow.
Can a massive volume of lengthy chess interviews, some dating back to over two decades, attract chess enthusiasts today, can it be of interest to a heavily satiated chess audience? You bet it can. Frederic Friedel started reading the 476-page book – and was immediately hooked. He describes the reason for his fascination and tells us what is unique about this work.