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This Cursed Beautiful Land by Evan Gershkovich review – jailed in Putin’s Russia

The US reporter wrongly imprisoned for espionage writes compellingly about his ordealEvan Gershkovich is the Wall Street Journal reporter who, in the early phase of Putin’s war in Ukraine, was snatched up by the Russian authorities on bogus espionage charges and spent a year and a half in Russian jails (first Lefortovo and then Yekaterinburg) before being released in a prisoner exchange…

The US reporter wrongly imprisoned for espionage writes compellingly about his ordealEvan Gershkovich is the Wall Street Journal reporter who, in the early phase of Putin’s war in Ukraine, was snatched up by the Russian authorities on bogus espionage charges and spent a year and a half in Russian jails (first Lefortovo and then Yekaterinburg) before being released in a prisoner exchange…

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