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Evan Gershkovich on Putin's Enforcers

The WSJ reporter returns to his beat

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Ben Domenech
Dec 13, 2024
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Evan Gershkovich is back, and he has quite a story to tell.

The spy at the front of the cabin drew open the curtain.

Wearing a sand-colored jacket and brown shoes, with a salt-and-pepper goatee, the man had spent the past few hours organizing the final preparations for the largest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War. Now, as the pilots started the …

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