DCPD-202400664 - Remarks on the Release of Three United States Citizens and One Permanent Resident From Detention in Russia and an Exchange With Reporters
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The President spoke at 12:18 p.m. in the State Dining Room at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to Paul N. Whelan, a U.S. citizen who was arrested and held on espionage charges by Russian security services in Moscow, Russia, on December 28, 2018; Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was arrested by Russian authorities on March 29, 2023; Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Tatar-Bashkir Service who was detained in Kazan, Russia, on October 18, 2023; Vladimir Kara-Murza, a British-Russian journalist and contributor to the Washington Post who was arrested by Russian authorities in April 2022 on charges of spreading false information about the armed forces; Oleg Orlov, cochairman of the Memorial human rights organization, who was imprisoned in February for his criticism of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine; Lilia Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeyeva, Ilya Yashin, and Vadim Ostanin, associates of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who died in a Russian prison on February 16; Elizabeth Whelan, sister of Paul N. Whelan; Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany; and Vadim Krasikov, a Russian intelligence operative who was convicted in Germany in 2021 and sentenced to life in prison for killing a former Chechen rebel in a Berlin park in 2019. He also referred to his sister Valerie Biden Owens. A reporter referred to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.
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Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, Remarks on the Release of Three United States Citizens and One Permanent Resident From Detention in Russia and an Exchange With Reporters, GovInfo, (August 1, 2024), https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/DCPD-202400664
