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Why the Continued Silence on Evan Gershkovich’s Arrest?

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2025
Above all, it behooves us Americans … to repress, and to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.
– George Kennan, American Diplomacy [1951]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
January 14, 2025
Why the Continued Silence on Evan Gershkovich’s Arrest?
Last August, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was freed by Russian authorities in a prisoner exchange with the United States. Russian national-security state officials had arrested Gershkovich on March 29, 2023, on charges of espionage on behalf of the CIA. In a secret trial, he was found guilty and later sentenced to 16 years in prison. During the entire ordeal, I wrote …
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