A year ago today, Evan was thrown into a Russian jail.

Putin had taken our colleague hostage, but as a newsroom we made a determination: to investigate the opaque structures and individuals responsible, who now hold his fate in their hands.

This is some of what we found:

Bring Evan home

On CNN International in 15 min. Very happy to have the chance to talk about Evan and the last year that was stolen from him.

Part of me still doesn’t believe it, though it’s been an entire year. Need I say it? I guess I do: Evan Gershkovich is not a spy. Trust me, I recruited him politico.eu/article/evan-g… #FreeEvan

Helena Bibowa, the oldest and only surviving native speaker of a tiny language called Wymysiöeryś is turning 102 today.
In honor of that, let me take you along on the story of Wymysiöeryś.
It's of death and resurrection, and a hefty deal of random, but I promise it's a happy one.

They’ve taken a year from this guy, my friend and colleague.

A year ago he was kidnapped, and his kidnapping was paraded around like due process inside Russia.

A year ago today. Let him go.
#IStandWithEvan wsj.com/world/russia/e…

Biggest professional news I’ve had in a while! It’s an honor, Crap Taxidermy⁩

Friday marks a year since Evan Gershkovich was thrown into a Russian jail.

Today we publish an investigation taking you inside secret prisoner negotiations between Putin and two US presidents—a poker game of human lives where the Kremlin holds the cards.

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Russia’s Faustian bargain — freedom for security — is shattered by the Moscow attack. My analysis of what is next, with ⁦Thomas Grove⁩ in The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/world/russia/a…

Today’s my birthday. That means it’s also exactly a year since I last saw #EvanGershkovich , happily gobbling up spicy tofu in a Chinese restaurant in Moscow a week before his arrest. Now he’s locked up, and I can’t even be on the other side of those walls. Release him. #Freeevan

Rightfully so

Which NATO member accounted for HALF half of U.S. foreign military sales last year? Poland. Part of Warsaw's plan to defend against Russia by getting closer to the U.S. Thomas Grove and I dig in.  wsj.com/world/europe/o… via The Wall Street Journal

Secretary of State Antony Blinken last month called Israel’s assertions abt UNRWA“highly, highly credible.” A new U.S. intelligence assessment wasn't as certain w/Jared Malsin & Warren Strobel wsj.com/world/middle-e…

How much military aid flows back to the US? A lot. The US defense industry has grown by more than 17% since Russia’s invasion, plants across the U.S. are hiring. wsj.com/economy/ukrain…

Horrifying we’re at this milestone. 10 years of war in Ukraine, a photographic chronology wsj.com/world/ukraine-…

Now Navalny’s Tomsk office has been shuttered, Ksenia Fadeyeva is serving a 9+ year jail sentence and Alexei is dead.

An obituary for a movement that inspired a generation in some of Russia’s furthest flung, and often hopeless, cities.

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When elections came around, they both won — and were overjoyed.

But then the problems started.

One realized he was being followed regularly and had his car vandalized.

The other was arrested in 2021 for extremism.

When I went to Tomsk in 2020, I found a couple of Navalny supporters already dizzy with the prospect of their success in looming city council elections. Their attitudes were awe-inspiring amidst the cynicism of every day life in many Siberian cities. wsj.com/world/russia/i…

“It was the first time I thought we can change something in this city.'

Thomas Grove on what Navalny represented to so many, & the cont'd repression.

By Sunday evening, Russian police detained some 400 people across Russia in rallies to commemorate Navalny, a watchdog group said.