The editors of The Wall Street Journal plan to send a lawyer and engage with Russia through diplomacy regarding the detention of American journalist Evan Gershkovich in Yekaterinburg. This was told socialbites.ca by Yaroslav Shirshikov, director of the Research Institute of Political Singularity and PR man who accompanied the journalist during the work.
“I am the director of the Political Singularity Research Institute. He contacted me via public contacts and asked for a comment. Two or a half weeks ago he spent four days in Yekaterinburg, and two days I accompanied him completely. Then he flew to Moscow with the photographer and apparently decided to return to Yekaterinburg to collect the material. He wrote to me on Tuesday asking if I had any objections to Thursday’s meeting. Of course I accepted. He disappeared on Wednesday. His management called me from London for some reason, not New York. “They said they would send defenders and cooperate over the diplomatic line,” he said.
According to Shirshikov, Gershkovich came to Yekaterinburg to learn about the public’s attitude towards Wagner PMC and its chairman, Yevgeny Prigozhin. The city stressed several times that the journalist came to Yekaterinburg because “he fell into public scandals with Prigozhin.”
“Not even in relation to PMC Wagner, but especially worked with the figure of Prigozhin, because Yekaterinburg got into public scandals with Prigozhin several times in a row. On the contrary, Prigozhin said something there, but in Yekaterinburg he was fired several times, roughly until ours to the governor. Therefore, he came to find out how representatives of civil society in Yekaterinburg relate to this figure and PMC Wagner in general. He met with a deputy of the regional parliament, a simple hard worker and the editor-in-chief of a media in the city,” he said.
Former FSB of the Russian Federation reportedThe Wall Street Journal reporter said Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Yekaterinburg on suspicion of spying “in the interests of the American government”. According to the Russian intelligence service, the journalist was collecting information “on the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex” at the direction of the United States. According to the FSB of the Russian Federation, Gershkovich was detained in Yekaterinburg while trying to obtain classified information, and a criminal case was opened for espionage.
The day before, public relations specialist Yaroslav Shirshikov declaration about the disappearance of a journalist who stopped communicating. At the same time, on the evening of March 29, Vecherniye Vedomosti reported that allegedly, near the Bukowski Grill restaurant in Yekaterinburg, plainclothes security forces put a man in a minibus and put on a sweater on his head to hide his face. visible. Shirshikov suggested that the prisoner was Evan Gershkovich.