 a charge which the State Department and The Wall Street Journal call, quote, ridiculous. Instead, they say the journalist is being used as a political pawn. David Collings, a professor in the English department at Bowdoin College, was an academic advisor to Grishkovich while he was a student at Bowdoin beginning in 2010. The two have kept in contact since his graduation. So when Grishkovich was arrested in 2023, Collings was shocked. He remembers the larger-than-life figure he knew on campus.