Americans Detained Abroad
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Our resident humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson puts the detention of an American detained in Putin’s Russia in context. Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal has been incarcerated in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison. He is accused of spying. It is practice that dates back to the American Civil War. Stream the show from www.tfic.tech or subscribe to the show on the podcast app of your choice. Additional audio courtesy of NBC News, cassiopeia and YouTube.
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