A prisoner swap with Russia brought three Americans home earlier this month. Among them was Russian American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, who was sentenced to six and a half years after the Russian ...

A Russian court on Friday again extended the pretrial detention of American-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva — this time by two months, until August 5. A Prague-based journalist with VOA’s sister ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alsu Kurmasheva's family has been in disbelief since being invited to the White House and learning of her release in Thursday's ...

Fifteen-year-old Bibi Butorin has not been at home with her mom in Prague since last spring. Her mother, Alsu Kurmasheva, an American-Russian journalist, is now detained in Russia. "My mom is ...

A Russian court on Friday extended the detention of Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist by three more days for allegedly failing to register as a foreign agent, according to local reports.

Portraits of Alsu Kurmasheva are scattered throughout the Prague apartment she shares with her husband and two daughters. But the journalist has not set foot here in more than a year. Perhaps the most ...

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Alsu Kurmasheva receives letters in jail -- from family, friends, colleagues, and strangers -- but sometimes it takes weeks for them to reach her in pretrial detention in the Russian city of Kazan. On ...

Alsu Kurmasheva ripped the strings off her face mask and carefully threaded the soft ends through the eyelets of her running shoes. The Puma Velocity Nitro 2s were in good condition — her husband ...

Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, attends a court hearing in Kazan, Russia, on May 3. Kurmasheva was convicted of spreading false information about the Russian military ...

A Russian-American journalist who was arrested last week on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent will be held before her trial in Russia until early December, her employer said. A ...

Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist for RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service, was honored with the International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in a ceremony held in New York on ...