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March 31 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the United States has demanded this Friday that the Russian authorities release the journalist of the American newspaper ‘The Wall Street Journal’ Evan Gershkovich, arrested on Thursday in Russia for alleged espionage.
“Let him go,” he said upon leaving the White House after being questioned by the journalists present. Hours earlier, the Kremlin stressed that foreign journalists “do not face restrictions” and stated that Gershkovich “was caught red-handed.”
The journalist would have been gathering information about the Wagner Group, owned by the oligarch Yevgeni Prigozhin, close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and who has sent mercenaries to Ukraine. Gershkovich’s last article published by ‘The Wall Street Journal’ dates from March 28 under the headline ‘Russia’s economy is beginning to unravel’.
Gershkovich previously worked for the French news agency AFP and the Russian newspaper ‘The Moscow Times’. Likewise, he has published in ‘The New York Times’, ‘The Economist’, ‘MIT Technology Review’, ‘Foreign Policy’ and Politico Europe, among other media, according to his website.
