Alsu Kurmasheva's family has been in disbelief ... calling their mom's return the "best birthday present ever." A court convicted Kurmasheva -- a Russian-American journalist working for Radio ...

Days before, his wife of two decades — Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva — had been ... for the false information charge. She was convicted July 19 and sentenced.

These ten cases illuminate governments’ efforts at criminalizing journalism and withholding information from the public.

Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva, in addition to green card holder Vladimir Kara-Murza, were released from Russian prison in the biggest US-Russia prison swap since the Cold War.

and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, a dual U.S.-Russian citizen convicted in July of spreading false information about the Russian military, accusations her family and ...

Earlier, the Supreme Court of Russia’s Tatarstan Region sentenced Kurmasheva ... Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor at Radio Liberty (designated in Russia as a foreign agent), and other journalists ...

(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) The president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, where Russian-American citizen Alsu Kurmasheva works as an editor, praised her imminent release as part of the ...

Two leading press-freedom organizations celebrated the release of journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva but said Russia must stop detaining members of the press. Rebecca Vincent ...

President Joe Biden confirmed that they, plus Alsu Kurmasheva and Vladimir Kara-Murza, were freed along with five Germans and seven Russian citizens who were being held as political prisoners.