US journalist goes on trial for espionage in Russia, with a conviction all but certain
Fifteen months after Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on espionage charges, he returned there for his trial starting Wednesday behind closed doors. The 32-year-old Gershkovich appeared in the courtroom on Wednesday morning in a glass cage, with his head shaven clean and wearing a black-and-blue plaid shirt. The American-born son of immigrants from the USSR, he is the first Western journalist to be arrested on espionage in Russia U...
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