wrongfully convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and more than a dozen others on Thursday as part of the largest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War. WSJ’s Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw report on the effort to bring Gershkovich home.

Further Listening:

-Russia Tries a WSJ Reporter in a Secret Court

-Two Parents on a Crusade to Free Their Son

Further Reading:

-Inside the Secret Negotiations to Free Evan Gershkovich

-WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich Is Free

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1d:T4d4,Today, we hear about the secret negotiations that led to an extraordinary prisoner swap on Thursday. Among the freed: Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, other Americans, Russian dissidents – and a convicted assassin. Read more: On Thursday, the biggest exchange of prisoners since the height of the Cold War took place.The quiet negotiations took months between the U.S., Russia and several European nations. Among the at least two dozen people freed was Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, detained in Russia on charges of espionage in 2023. Also, Paul Whelan, a former Marine who had been imprisoned in Russia for more than five years. Russian dissidents, along with a convicted Russian assassin, were also among those freed. Host Martine Powers speaks with national security reporter Shane Harris about the buil

The Historic U.S.-Russia Prisoner Swap