Biden says Gershkovich's detention will 'cost' Russia
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April 5, 2024
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US journalist Evan Gershkovich stands inside a defendants' cage at Moscow City Court on June 22, 2023.
WASHINGTON (JTA) - President Joe Biden said the United States would continue to "impose costs" on Russia for its imprisonment of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested one year ago.
The Journal marked the March 29 anniversary by leaving most of its front page empty below a headline reading, "HIS STORY SHOULD BE HERE." Every other article and headline on the front page involved Gershkovich.
"Today we mark a painful anniversary: one year of American journalist Evan Gershkovich's wrongful detention in Russia," Biden said in a statement.
"As I have told Evan's parents, I w...
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