U.S. journalist imprisoned in Russia 'deeply touched' by letter-writing campaign
Colleagues and friends of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal correspondent detained in Russia, have launched a letter-writing campaign to keep his spirits high.
Locked in a small cell with just an hour a day to walk in a narrow yard, he’s almost completely cut off from the world.
But Evan Gershkovich, the first American journalist detained in Russia on spying charges since the Cold War, can receive mail — so colleagues and friends have set up a letter-writing campaign to keep the Wall Street Journal correspondent’s spirits high.
Held in a notorious Moscow prison, where colleagues say he shares a cell with another inmate, Gershkovich, 31, is allowed to receive the letters, but only if they're in Russian so censors can read them, and mailed from inside the country.
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Polina Ivanova, who also worked in Russia for the Financial Times, is one of the organizers of the campaign, in which a group of volunteers in Russia take the letters, stuff the envelops, drive them to the post offices and mail them to the Lefortovo Prison.
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