Economy

Inside Gershkovich’s 16 Months in Russian Prisons

Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent Evan Gershkovich tells Bloomberg This Weekend how his reporting experience and knowledge of Russia helped him understand that his 2023 arrest on false espionage charges was likely intended to make him part of a prisoner exchange. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Gershkovich discusses his 16 months in Russian prisons, his memoir This Cursed Beautiful Land and what Stephen Hubbard’s release says about Moscow’s use of detained Americans