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Philadelphia (AFP) - Nearly a year since US journalist Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on espionage charges, his parents are counting on a "very personal" promise from President Joe Biden to bring him home. The US government has declared that Gershkovich, who categorically denies the spying accusations, is wrongfully detained, and negotiations are underway to swap him in a prisoner exchange. "He made a very personal, very strong commitment to do whatever it takes to bring Evan home and that has been tremendous for us," Evan's father Mikhail Gershkovich told AFP in an interview this wee...
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Moscow (AFP) - A Moscow court on Tuesday said jailed US journalist Evan Gershkovich would remain in pre-trial detention until at least March 30, ensuring he will spend at least a year behind bars, as Russia separately slapped a ban on a US-funded broadcaster. Russian prosecutors have charged Wall Street Journal reporter Gershkovich with espionage -- the first time such a criminal accusation has been levelled against a Western reporter in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. Gershkovich, his employers and the White House all reject the charges, which carry a maximum sentence of 20 years. ...
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Moscow (AFP) - A Russian court on Thursday extended until 5 April the detention of US-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva on charges denounced by her employers as politically motivated. Kurmasheva, a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalist, was arrested last year for failing to register as a "foreign agent". Her employers says he has also been charged with spreading "false information", which carries a potential jail term of up to 15 years. At the closed-door hearing, Kurmasheva's lawyers had asked that she be released under house arrest, pending trial. A court in the central city o...
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Moscow (AFP) - US reporter Evan Gershkovich was on Tuesday denied bail as he appeared at a Moscow court for alleged espionage in a case that has drawn international condemnation. Wearing jeans and a blue checked shirt, Gershkovich crossed his arms and smiled before the start of the appeal -- the first partly open hearing against his pre-trial detention. His request for release on bail was turned down, with the judge saying his detention would "remain in place, without any changes". "All understood. Thank you very much," Gershkovich was heard telling the judge from inside the defendant's glass ...
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Moscow (AFP) - Evan Gershkovich was determined to keep reporting from Moscow since the Kremlin's seismic Ukraine offensive, seeing it as his duty to keep telling Russia's stories, despite the risks, in a country he loved. The US-born son of Soviet Jewish emigres had covered Russia as it grew increasingly repressive for six years, earning a reputation of a talented on-the-ground reporter. Weeks before the Ukraine campaign, he got his dream job: Russia correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. As many US journalists left Russia, he made a choice to keep reporting from the country. Now, the 31-y...
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Moscow (AFP) - US journalist Evan Gershkovich's court appearance in Moscow on Tuesday will be a rare break from his isolation in Lefortovo prison -- a symbol of repression since Soviet times. The detention facility, which has housed a long list of high-profile figures, is engineered by the FSB security service to keep detainees in near-total solitude. "It's a frozen prison, they're isolating you as much as possible from the outside world and from other prisoners, apart from your cellmate," said Igor Rudnikov, a former detainee and journalist. AFP spoke to Rudnikov and lawyers, activists and fa...
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Washington (AFP) - The parents of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on Friday said that they remained optimistic for a positive outcome to his detention insisting that their son "still loved Russia." "It's one of the American qualities that we absorbed, you know, be optimistic, believe in a happy ending," Gershkovich's mother, Ella Milman told the Wall Street Journal, speaking out for the first time since his arrest. "But I am not stupid. I understand what's involved, but that's what I choose to believe," she added. Ella and her husband Mikhail Gershkovich fled the Soviet ...
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