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Gershkovich could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Russia’s Federal Security Service arrested Gershkovich in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city, on March 29.
Gershkovich, 32, was arrested March 29, 2023, while on a reporting trip to the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg. ... who is serving a 16-year sentence after being convicted on spying charges ...
Gershkovich, a 32-year-old American who said the allegations against him were false, went on trial last month in the city of Yekaterinburg. He was the first U.S. journalist arrested on spying ...
Gershkovich is the first American reporter to be charged with espionage in Russia since 1986, when Nicholas Daniloff, a Moscow correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, was arrested by the KGB ...
Another exchange, hypothesized by Andrey Zakharov, would be Gershkovich and Paul Whelan for María Rosa Mayer Muños and Ludwig Gisch (aka Anna Dultseva and Artem Dultsev), who were arrested in Slovenia on charges of spying for Russia in January 2023. [76] [77] [78] The Moscow Times affirmed that speculation centered on Cherkasov, Mayer, and ...
Gershkovich, 32, became the first U.S. journalist arrested on spying charges in Russia since the Cold War when he was detained by the Federal Security Service (FSB) on March 29.
The trial is to be held in the Sverdlovsky Regional Court in Yekaterinburg, Russia's fourth-largest city, where he was arrested. Gershkovich has since been held in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, about 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) to the west. The court said trial will be closed to the public, as is usual in espionage cases.
The American-born son of immigrants from the USSR, Gershkovich is the first Western journalist arrested on espionage charges in post-Soviet Russia. The State Department has declared him ...