WASHINGTON – Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) issued the following statement yesterday on the release of four Americans – Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Vladimir Kara-Murza – who were wrongfully detained in Russia: “For the past 16 months, Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime has held Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in a decrepit, Stalin-era prison. He was…
