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 ...

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 ...

Among those freed in one the largest prisoner exchanges in decades was Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist who was sentenced to more than six years in a Russian prison after a trip to visit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three Americans — Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva and Paul Whelan — landed Thursday in the U.S. after being detained in Russia. It was part of one of the largest prisoner swaps since the end of the ...

Alsu Kurmasheva, Maria Ressa and Jonathan Munro With media freedom threatened worldwide, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Alsu Kurmasheva–recently released from wrongful detention in ...

A court in the Russian city of Kazan has extended the detention of Alsu Kurmasheva, a veteran journalist of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Tatar-Bashkir Service who has been in Russian custody ...

Russian courts have convicted a string of journalists in recent days. Alsu Kurmasheva, a dual Russian-American citizen and journalist, was convicted and sentenced to six and a half years in prison for ...

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.