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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Andrew Roth Andrews air force base, Maryland

Evan Gershkovich is free – and keen to raise plight of Russian political prisoners

For a few seconds, no one even noticed that Evan Gershkovich had taken his first steps back on US soil as a free man.

All eyes were on Paul Whelan, the ex-marine who had spent more than 2,000 days in a Russian prison, mostly in obscurity as his family implored the White House to bring him home. Now Joe Biden was holding him by the elbow, while the vice-president, Kamala Harris, looked on.

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