Pavel Butorin, husband of imprisoned Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Alsu Kurmasheva , and their two daughters, Bibi (16 years old) and Miriam (12 years old), are available for media interviews between 9:00am-12pm on Thursday, July 25 at the National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
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Pavel Butorin, husband of imprisoned Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Alsu Kurmasheva , and their two daughters, Bibi (16 years old) and Miriam (12 years old), are available for media interviews between 9:00am-12pm on Thursday, July 25 at the National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Alsu is one of the two American journalists currently detained in Russia. She was arrested in October 2023 while visiting her sick mother for failing to declare herself a “foreign agent.”
The family has appeared on CNN , , CBS Sunday Morning and in the Wall Street Journal .
Please contact Rowan Humphries ( humphriesr@rferl.org ) to schedule an interview.
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