Published: 7:24am, 10 Sep 2024Updated: 9:31am, 10 Sep 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday that it would not grant an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin to Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was released by Russia this summer in a prisoner swap.
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Gershkovich made a handwritten request to interview Putin while filling out a form requesting a presidential pardon ahead of the prisoner exchange, the Journal reported.
“So far we are not interested in such an interview. For there to be an interview with foreign media and some specific one, we need to have an occasion,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
“So far we don’t see such an occasion,” he said.
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