"This is really a momentous day for Evan, his family, and his family at The Wall Street Journal," says the Moscow bureau chief of Wall Street Journal after an intricate multinational deal freed the WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich and others including former US marine Paul Whelan. "When he gets up and running again, he wants to do journalism. He wants to have an interview with Vladimir Putin. That to me is pretty remarkable and really speaks to the character of Evan," adds Ann Simmons. SOUNDBITES