US `serious about 囚人 交流´ for reporter held in Russia
US 大統領 Joe Biden has said he is serious about 追求するing a 囚人 交流 for a 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物 reporter who has been 拘留するd in Russia for more than 100 days.
The Kremlin earlier this month 示唆するd that it was open to a possible 囚人 交流 that could 伴う／関わる Evan Gershkovich, but it 強調するd that such 会談 must be held out of the public 注目する，もくろむ.
Speaking at a news 会議／協議会 in Helsinki, Finland, Mr Biden made （疑いを）晴らす that the US is 利益／興味d.
“I’m serious on a 囚人 交流,” said Mr Biden, who was 結論するing a five-day visit to Europe that took him to the UK, Lithuania and Finland.
“And I’m serious about doing all we can to 解放する／自由な Americans 存在 不法に held in Russia or anywhere else for that 事柄, and that 過程 is under way.”
Mr Gershkovich was 逮捕（する）d on スパイ 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s in the city of Yekaterinburg while on a 報告（する）／憶測ing trip. He is 存在 held at Moscow’s 厳しい Lefortovo 刑務所，拘置所. A Moscow 法廷，裁判所 recently upheld a 判決，裁定 to keep him in 保護／拘留 until August 30.
塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物 reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City 法廷，裁判所 (Dmitry Serebryakov/AP/PA)
Mr Gershkovich and his 雇用者 否定する the 主張s, and the US 政府 has 宣言するd him to be wrongfully 拘留するd. 当局 in Russia have not 供給するd any 証拠 to support the スパイ 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s.
White House 国家の 安全 助言者 Jake Sullivan 確認するd last week that there have been “discussions” between the two 味方するs, but 警告を与えるd that there is not yet “a （疑いを）晴らす pathway” to winning Mr Gershkovich’s freedom.
Mr Gershkovich is the first American reporter to 直面する スパイ 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s in Russia since September 1986, when Nicholas Daniloff, a Moscow 特派員 for US News and World 報告（する）／憶測, was 逮捕（する）d by the 国家保安委員会.
Mr Daniloff was 解放（する）d 20 days later in a 交換（する） for an 従業員 of the Soviet Union’s UN 使節団 who was 逮捕（する）d by the 連邦検察局, also on 秘かに調査するing 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s.
At a 国家の 圧力（をかける） Club event on Thursday, Mr Gershkovich’s sister, Danielle, 述べるd the emotional （死傷者）数 from her brother’s 捕らわれた. “I just try to take it day by day. It still feels unreal いつかs. For my parents, it’s a 十分な-time 職業.”
She said she had received a letter from her brother this week.
One silver lining of the 100th day marker, she said, was the publicity and attention for her brother.
“Seeing Evan’s 直面する in the news was just really heartening. At such a dark time, it’s wonderful to see his 直面する again,” she said.
