Historic moment Evan Gershkovich is freed after 491 DAYS in jail under Putin’s trumped-up charges

INNOCENT American journalist Evan Gershkovich has finally been freed as part of a Cold War-style prisoner swap deal with Russia. Evan, 32, faced an outrageous 16 years in jail after a sham trial where he was wrongly accused by Vladimir Putin’s crooked regime of collecting “secret information“ for the CIA. But he was released today after 491 days inside the horrific Russian penal system - the same network of politically charged jails that killed Alexei Navalny. A Russian government plane was seen at Ankara Airport in Turkey today where the journalist was one of dozens of political prisoners to be released. The swap involved 23 other prisoners in Russian jails - including former US marine Paul Whelan and British-Russian journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza. Today’s exchange is one of the largest and most complicated swaps between the West and Russia in history. The US, Russia and Germany were all involved in the large scale operation. The Wall Street