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, a Russia n-American journalist for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, of spreading false information about the Russia n army and sentenced her to 6½ years in prison after a secret trial, court records and officials said Monday.
Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson convicted in fraud trial for lying to investors, fake deals with Google, Oprah Kurmasheva, who holds U.S. and Russian citizenship and lives in Prague with her husband and two daughters, was taken into custody in October 2023 and charged with failing to register as a foreign agent while collecting information about the Russian military.
Gershkovich, 32, was arrested March 29, 2023, while on a reporting trip to the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg. Authorities claimed, without offering any evidence, that he was gathering secret information for the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that when it comes to Gershkovich, Whelan and other Americans wrongfully detained in Russia and elsewhere, the U.S. is working on the cases “quite literally every day.”
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