'Overwhelmed With Emotions': Husband Of RFE/RL Journalist Alsu Kurmasheva On Her Release From Russian Prison
- By Margot Buff and
- RFE/RL
RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva was expected to be reunited with her family near Washington, D.C., after she was freed from a Russian prison in a historic prisoner swap. While awaiting her return, Kurmasheva's husband, Pavel Butorin, who also works for RFE/RL, spoke about the ordeal that their family endured during Kurmasheva's unjust imprisonment for more than nine months.