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Jailed WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich ‘remains strong’ and in ‘good health’ in Russia, American ambassador says

U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy has made her third visit to Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been behind bars in Russia since March on charges of espionage

The Independent UK

US ambassador makes third visit to jailed journalist Evan Gershkovich

Ambassador Lynne Tracy renewed her appeal for Russia to release the reporter and imprisoned US Marine Paul Whelan.

Al Jazeera

American ambassador to Russia visits jailed reporter Gershkovich, says he's in good health

U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy has made her third visit to Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been behind bars in Russia since March on charges of espionage

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Biden adviser says US is pressing for the release of reporter who has spent 100 days in Russian jail

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the U.S. has been in contact with Russian officials to press for the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich

The Independent UK

US ambassador to Russia visits jailed WSJ reporter Gershkovich

Evan Gershkovich is in ‘good health and remains strong’, US State Department says, reiterating call for his release.

Al Jazeera

House passes resolution calling on Putin to release reporter Gershkovich and others

WASHINGTON -- The House unanimously passed a resolution late Tuesday calling on Russia to immediately release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained since March.

Tribune News Service

House passes resolution calling on Putin to release reporter Gershkovich and others - Roll Call

The House unanimously passed a resolution calling on Russia to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, detained since March.

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Musician Travis Leake spoke up about freedom of speech in Russia with Anthony Bourdain in 2014. Now he’s been detained

Russia has a history of arresting Americans to be used as political leverage against the US, Gustaf Kilander reports

The Independent UK

Evan Gershkovich: Russian court extends detention of US journalist

A White House spokesperson said he ‘needs to be released immediately’

Evening Standard

Paul Whelan from Russia: 'I have been told that I won't be left behind'

DETROIT — Michigan's Paul Whelan said that he has more confidence in U.S. efforts to bring him home from Russia than he did a few months ago in December, though he wishes the process would move faster.

Tribune News Service

US envoy faces 'emergency room' of rising state detentions

Doha (AFP) - The detention of US journalist Evan Gershkovich in Russia has put a new strain on the workload of US hostage envoy Roger Carstens who even before the arrest said his office resembles a "hospital emergency room".

AFP

Lavrov: White House has called Kremlin to seek release of Gershkovich and Whelan

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that White House officials had requested the release of detained Americans Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan in conversations with a Kremlin official.

Reuters

US denounces arrest of former consulate employee in Russia

Robert Shonov is being held for allegedly cooperating ‘on a confidential basis’ with a foreign organisation.

Al Jazeera

Wagner head says forces to leave Bakhmut next week – as it happened

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has a history of dramatic statements, says troops will leave fiercely contested city on 10 May

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Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 436 of the invasion

Prigozhin threatens to pull Wagner troops out of Bakhmut; Kyiv downs own drone after it lost control

The Independent UK

US ambassador visits American Paul Whelan at Russian prison

The U.S. ambassador to Russia has visited Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan in a remote Russian prison

Reuters

US envoy to Russia visits detained American Paul Whelan in prison- embassy

U.S. ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy on Thursday visited American citizen Paul Whelan in the prison he has been held in Mordovia in eastern Russia, the U.S. embassy said.

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The Independent UK

US will sanction Russian and Iranian intelligence officials for hostage-taking, White House says

The new sanctions target officials responsible for the arrest and wrongful detention of US nationals

Al Jazeera

Top US newspapers call for Evan Gershkovich’s release in Russia

Russia’s foreign ministry says it denied a US consular visit request for journalist amid growing calls for his release.

The Independent UK

US urges Russia's Lavrov to see suffering of Whelan's sister

The U_S_ has brought the sister of an American imprisoned in Russia to the U_N_ Security Council for a session being chaired by the Russian foreign minister, urging him to “look into her eyes and see her suffering.”

AFP

Ukraine allies denounce 'cynical' Russian meeting at UN

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Kyiv's allies on Monday slammed Russia for a Security Council meeting chaired by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about protecting the United Nations charter, which Moscow itself violated by invading Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

US envoy to UN urges Russian foreign minister to free detainees

At the UN Security Council, US envoy says Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich have been used by Moscow as ‘human pawns’.

AFP

US envoy tells Lavrov at UN to release US journalist

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Washington's United Nations ambassador made a direct plea to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday to release a detained US journalist and a former US Marine.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Chief Criticizes Russia at UN Meeting Chaired by Lavrov

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a meeting chaired by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday that Moscow's invasion of Ukraine is "causing massive suffering and devastation to the country and its people" and fueling "global economic dislocation triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic." "Tensions between major powers are at an…

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