The American Committee for US-Russia Accord condemns the arrest and detainment of the American journalist Evan Gershkovich by Russian authorities on espionage charges.
The arrest of Mr. Gershkovich is an affront to the values of free inquiry and will only increase the already dangerous level of tension between the United States and Russia.
We call for the unconditional release of Mr. Gershkovich. We further call for all parties to the conflict to engage in meaningful dialogue to put an end to this war which has cost the lives of so many.
Signed,
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editorial director and publisher of The Nation.
Ellen Mickiewicz, James R. Shepley emeritus professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University
Jack F. Matlock, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-1991
John Pepper, former Chairman and CEO of The Procter & Gamble Company
Nicolai N. Petro, Professor of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island
Cynthia Lazaroff, founder of Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy
Christopher Dyson, Executive Vice President of the Dyson-Kissner Moran Corporation
Bernadine Joselyn, a former US foreign service officer, served as Blandin Foundation’s founding director of Public Policy and Engagement
Krishen Mehta, Senior Global Justice Fellow at Yale University
David C. Speedie, former Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on U.S. Global Engagement at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
James W. Carden, former advisor to the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission