Why Evan Gershkovich Went to Russia
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Evan's Reporting on Russia
Drew Harrold: Evan was followed by several Russian security officers, some of whom recorded his movements with a camera. He assumed his phone was monitored and there was another trip to the western region of Muscov where he was sort of followed and filmed by unidentified men. "For being one reporter up against, you know, a whole army of competing journalist, Evan was able to build a profile that showed the president was sort of isolated," Harrold says. After the break, Evan's damning reporting on Putin and the harrowing Russian prison, he's now being held in.
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