Russian prosecutors accuse Wall Street Journal reporter of acting “under instructions from the CIA.”
The trial of American journalist Evan Gershkovich in Russia began Wednesday in the first espionage case against a Western journalist since the Cold War.
He has spent the last 15 months in Lefortovo, a high-security prison in Moscow, but has now been transferred back to Yekaterinburg, some 1,500 kilometers east toward the Ural mountains, for the beginning of his closed-door trial. Ahead of the hearing, journalists were given a rare glimpse of Gershkovich who appeared with a shaven head but looked to be in good form, casting several smiles in the direction of reporters.
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