WSJ Reporter’s Parents Speak Out for First Time Since Son’s Arrest in Russia

The parents of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, Mikhail and Ella Gershkovich, speak out for the first time since their son's March 29 detainment in Russia. Credit: Screenshot/WSJ.

The parents of Wall Street Journal reporter (WSJ) reporter Evan Gershkovich have spoken out for the first time since their son’s arrest in Russia.

Russia detained Gershkovich on March 29 on espionage charges, which The Wall Street Journal denied. The detainment was “a shock,” his mother Ella Gershkovich told WSJ in a video interview published on April 14. Evan Gershkovich’s father, Mikhail Gershkovich, said he felt like he “failed in some way as a father” by not warning his son about the dangers of being a journalist in Russia, where there is no freedom of the press.