An American journalist has been allowed to leave a Russian prison with the diary he wrote while in prison.
American journalist Evan Gershkovich, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison on charges of espionage, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin before he was released during a large-scale prisoner exchange between Russia and the West Putin to give him an interview.
This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, with which this prisoner of Putin collaborated.
This publication describes the story of the imprisonment and release of Evan Gershkovich, whom the master of the Kremlin used as one of the hostages in an exchange for Russian intelligence agents serving sentences in Western countries, including for premeditated murder.
The American journalist was allowed to leave the Russian prison along with the diary he wrote during his imprisonment, letters, and materials for the book he was working on.
But first he had to write an official request for a presidential pardon addressed to Vladimir Putin. The printout form included a long blank space that the prisoner could fill in at will or, as expected, simply leave blank.
In this form, Gershkovich asked whether the Russian president would consider giving him an interview.
Recall that Evan Gershkovich was released on Thursday, August 1, in Turkey along with former US Marine Paul Whelan, Radio Liberty journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, who has Russian and American citizenship, five German citizens, and Russian political prisoners, including Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
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