Polina Ivanova on Evan Gershkovich’s Detention
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Evan Gershkovich has been in Russian detention for the last several weeks. He is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and he’s the latest American taken hostage by the Vladimir Putin regime. His good friend Polina Ivanova is a reporter for the Financial Times, a colleague of Evan’s in Russia, and has been an outspoken advocate for his release.
She joined Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes from Berlin to talk about Evan: who he is, why he has been detained by the Russians, what we know about his conditions in prison, and what it will take to get him home.
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| 1:14.0 | We have seen a downward trend if that seems like a euphemism or an understatement. |
| 1:20.0 | A downward trend in freedom of speech and press in Russia in recent years from the |
| 1:28.0 | years of the years. |
| 1:31.0 | The laws introduced labeling independent media as extremists, |
| 1:35.0 | some as foreign agents squeezing the space completely up until the point of the outbreak of war, |
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