Journalism trainers detained by Putin Government in St Petersberg

The Director of WAN-IFRA’s Newsplex Training Centre at the University of South Carolina, Randy Covington, was detained by the Russian Government last week while conducting a journalism training workshop with Joe Bergantino of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. Bergantino penned this letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, first published in the The Boston Globe and reproduced here with permission.