Gershkovich’s release request: An interview with Putin [Avery Lotz | 14 hours ago | Axios.com]
Before Evan Gershkovich was released from Russian prison Thursday, he asked the Russian government for one thing — the chance to interview the man behind his imprisonment, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Flashback: Putin told Tucker Carlson in February that he was “ready to talk” about releasing Gershkovich, but that he also knew of “a person serving a sentence in an allied country of the U.S.” whom he considered a “patriot.”