Ola Cichowlas

Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and sometimes Poland for @AFP. In Warsaw after many years in Moscow.

[Patrick Reevell @Reevellp]

HELP: Alec spoke to a kind French-speaking couple who gave him a lift to the Buarbreen glacier on Thurs July 31. We believe he may have told them about his planned route. We're trying to find this couple. They were in a camper van and drove him from Buer to the Buer restaurant.

[Patrick Reevell @Reevellp]

HELP: Our friend @AlecLuhn is currently missing while hiking in Norway's Folgefonna national park. If anyone has seen him please get in touch. If people in the area can share this please do
Last seen July 31 after leaving Odda headed for Holmaskjer. Planned to go to Breidablikk

[Ola Cichowlas @olacicho]

“When Ilona Tripolets ran outside last week as a Russian missile attack hit Ukraine's central city of Kryvyi Rig, she instantly realised her nine-year-old little brother German, who was at the playground, had been killed.”

https://t.co/cfEu8LOR1j

[Ola Cichowlas @olacicho]

Having missed almost four years of her son's life while incarcerated in a Belarusian prison, Irina Schastnaya still wants to zip up the 14-year-old's coat, struggling to digest how tall he grew in her absence.

From Białystok:

https://t.co/ZLZ0vZQAD0

[Oliver Carroll @olliecarroll]

I could watch this video 1000 times.

[Al Drago @Al_Drago]

Journalist Evan Gershkovich lifts his mother, Ella Milman, as US President Joe Biden looks on, on the tarmac after arriving home at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Thursday.

[Valerie Hopkins @VALERIEinNYT]

FREE.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Vladimir Kara-Murza are coming home.

[Ola Cichowlas @olacicho]

Evan is going home from where he should never have been in the first place

Evan Gershkovich is going home, those words can finally be written !

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Breaking: Russia freed wrongly convicted WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich as part of the largest and most complex East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War https://t.co/MAPTNZ6Wdf

[Pjotr Sauer @PjotrSauer]

EVAN IS FREE!!! Thank you to everyone who made this happen, who supported Evan and his family over the last 491 days. We have seen the best of humanity in action. My heart is so full.

Cant wait to hug you Vania ♥️

[Jonathan Brown @jonathaneebrown]

ANKARA @AFP: US journalist Gershkovich, former marine Paul Whelan released by Russia: Turkey

[Anton Troianovski @antontroian]

Evan Gershkovich and other high-profile prisoners are free, Turkey says https://t.co/AkjufsllVt

[Andrew Roth @Andrew__Roth]

Biden:
Today, Evan Gershkovich received a sentence of 16 years in a Russian prison, despite having committed no crime. Rather, he was targeted by the Russian government because he is a journalist and an American. We are pushing hard for Evan’s release and will continue to do so.

[маша борзунова @mborzunova]

16 лет. Странно было ожидать чего-то другого от российского суда, но это не значит, что от этого становится легче на это всё смотреть. Ваня – самый сильный, а мы ему поможем со всем справиться и сделаем все, чтобы он как можно скорее вернулся к нам.

[Pjotr Sauer @PjotrSauer]

It’s incredibly difficult and infuriating to watch this clip of our brave friend Evan in a glass cage being sentenced to 16 years in jail simply for doing his job as a journalist

[Ola Cichowlas @olacicho]

Evan should be back with his family, doing what he does best in his newsroom, on the football pitch, cooking delicious things and so much more. And not here

[max seddon @maxseddon]

Evan Gershkovich's trial has begun in secret in Ekaterinburg, the city where Russia's FSB arrested him last year.

Beyond surreal to see Evan, a superb journalist, in the defendant's glass cage on these ludicrous charges, for which Russia has not provided any evidence.

[Pjotr Sauer @PjotrSauer]

Evan unimpressed by the farce that Russia calls his trial. Unbreakable. It is time to get him out already

[Ola Cichowlas @olacicho]

'We will never register': Georgia NGOs vow to defy repressive law https://t.co/F8tuOhiegj

[Ola Cichowlas @olacicho]

Tbilisi earlier today, fourth night in a row