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Policy would stop litigants finding sympathetic judges – as in mifepristone case – but McConnell slams move; Biden to visit Baltimore after bridge collapseWhy did Russia arrest Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, and what might they want in return for his release? The Guardian’s Julian Borger looks into the question, one year into the American journalist’s detention:Friday marks the grim first anniversary of the day when masked Russian officers grabbed Evan Gershkovich, an American journalist, at a steakhouse in Yekaterinburg where he was waiting to eat on a reporting trip. Continue reading...
Policy would stop litigants finding sympathetic judges – as in mifepristone case – but McConnell slams move; Biden to visit Baltimore after bridge collapse
Why did Russia arrest Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, and what might they want in return for his release? The Guardian’s Julian Borger looks into the question, one year into the American journalist’s detention:
Friday marks the grim first anniversary of the day when masked Russian officers grabbed Evan Gershkovich, an American journalist, at a steakhouse in Yekaterinburg where he was waiting to eat on a reporting trip. Continue reading...