Tag: Gershkovichs
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Russian Judge Agrees to Extend Evan Gershkovich’s Detention for Three Months
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MOSCOW — Meeting behind closed doors, a Moscow court on Tuesday extended the arrest of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal correspondent accused of espionage, for more than three months, until Aug. 30. The refusal of bail and the extension of Mr. Gershkovich’s detention were widely expected, although Russia has presented no evidence to back…
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The Unimaginable Horror of Evan Gershkovich’s Arrest in Moscow
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Evan Gershkovich.Photograph from AFP / Getty On Wednesday, the Russian state security service, the F.S.B., arrested my friend Evan. Evan Gershkovich, a thirty-one-year-old reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the son of Soviet-born émigrés who came to the U.S. in the late seventies, was detained while on a reporting trip to Yekaterinburg, a city…
