Outrage grows over Evan Gershkovich’s 16-year sentence in Russian penal colony
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President Joe Biden says Gershkovich was ‘targeted by the Russian government because he is a journalist and an American’
President Joe Biden says Gershkovich was ‘targeted by the Russian government because he is a journalist and an American’