A Russian court opened the espionage trial of imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter
Gershkovich and the newspaper have denied Russian Federal Security Service accusations that he was spying for the CIA when he was detained in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg during a reporting trip in March last year. It’s the first time since the Cold War that Russia has tried a US reporter for alleged espionage, which can carry a 20-year sentence.
Evan Gershkovich at Sverdlovsk Regional Court in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on June 26.
Photographer: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images
The trial at the city’s Sverdlovsk Regional Court is ...