{"id":1908890,"date":"2023-04-02T17:56:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T21:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-calls-for-immediate-release-of-american-reporter-and-paul-whelan-in-call-with-russian-counterpart\/"},"modified":"2023-04-02T17:59:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T21:59:20","slug":"blinken-calls-for-immediate-release-of-american-reporter-and-paul-whelan-in-call-with-russian-counterpart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-calls-for-immediate-release-of-american-reporter-and-paul-whelan-in-call-with-russian-counterpart\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken Calls For \u2018Immediate Release\u2019 Of American Reporter And Paul Whelan In Call With Russian Counterpart"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblinken-calls-for-immediate-release-of-american-reporter-and-paul-whelan-in-call-with-russian-counterpart%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1908890&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken had a conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Sunday, asking for the &#8220;immediate release\u201d of two Americans, Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and Paul Whelan, an ex-U.S. Marine veteran. Both have been detained in Russia, Gershkovich on spying allegations and Whelan since 2018 on espionage charges, which he denies. The State Department announced Blinken\u2019s \u201cgrave concern\u201d over the detention of the journalist, while the Russian Foreign Ministry claimed the US was politicking the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has also called for Gershkovich\u2019s release, while officials have not yet managed to meet with him. Gershkovich faces up to two decades behind bars given his charges. Blinken&#8217;s conversation with Lavrov was the countries\u2019 third since Russia&#8217;s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Sunday, calling for the \u201cimmediate release\u201d of two Americans currently detained in Russia, the State Department announced in a statement.\u00a0 Blinken demanded the release of Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and Paul Whelan, a U.S. Marine veteran who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1530,"featured_media":1908891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4123,4636,3755,21799,6057,5531,3684,5046,3965,7835],"class_list":["post-1908890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-american","tag-blinken","tag-calls","tag-counterpart","tag-immediate","tag-paul","tag-release","tag-reporter","tag-russian","tag-whelan"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}