Putin may have been looking for an example to deter other reporters—foreign and domestic—from doing their jobs.
by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, suggesting that U.S. officials hope he might be traded, like a hostage, for some Russian prisoner.The problem is, in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, it oftena crime. In declaring Gershkovich a foreign spy, Putin may have been looking not for a token in a prisoner-exchange, but for an example to deter other reporters—foreign and domestic—from doing their jobs.
Under its provisions, anyone looking too closely at anything regarding state secrets is, ipso facto, a criminal. Nor is the threat merely theoretical. Gessen cites several cases where Russian journalists have been charged with “high treason” and sentenced to long prison terms for simply criticizing the war in Ukraine or for reporting on Russian troop movements.
These cases have deterred many Russian reporters from going down the same road; most of them have long ago left the country. The arrest of Gershkovich may be seen as a message that the law applies to foreign journalists as well.The most shocking thing about the Gershkovich case is that such cases are so rare. No American journalist has been arrested in Russia on charges of espionage since Nicholas Daniloff, then a Moscow reporter for U.S.
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