Who is Evan Gershkovich? What friends say about the Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia
Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen and Wall Street Journal reporter, is being held in Russia on espionage charges the U.S. government and his friends insist are false. To the rest of the world, Evan Gershkovich is a 31-year-old U.S. citizen and Wall Street Journal reporter being held in Russia. But to those who know him best, he's just Evan -- a "normal American guy" in addition to his career as a journalist deeply committed to covering Russia, a country he loved reporting from. "I knew that sweater," Pjotr Sauer, who met him five years ago when both were working at The Moscow Times, said of Gershkovich's attire in photos of his arrest. "I've seen him a million times in that sweater. I joked about the fact that he had that one sweater, so it's just surreal. There are no words to describe how you feel as a person when you see those images." Reporter for U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich, detained on suspicion of espio...