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US journalist Evan Gershkovich's trial for espionage started in a closed-door session in Russia on Wednesday, marking 15 months since his arrest. Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal correspondent, was detained in March 2023 during a reporting trip in...

The trial of US journalist Evan Gershkovich, who faces espionage charges in Russia, will begin on June 26, 2024. The trial will be held behind closed doors in Yekaterinburg. He was arrested in 2023 and was accused of working for the CIA, collecting ...

U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, who has been jailed for over a year in Russia on espionage charges, will stand trial in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, where he was detained, authorities said Thursday.Russia: Espionage charges against US...

U.S. Staff Sergeant Gordon Black was detained in Vladivostok, Russia, on suspicion of stealing from a woman he was in a relationship with. The woman, whom he had met in South Korea, reported money missing after an argument at her home. Black was det...

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke in an interview published on Friday about war and peace in Ukraine, the risks of advances in genetics and artificial intelligence and fears of a world war.

Putin made the comments in a more than two-hour interview with conservative talk-show host Tucker Carlson that was conducted in Moscow on Tuesday and aired on tuckercarlson.com. Putin devoted a substantial part of the interview to complaining that U...

A court in Moscow decided to extend the detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is facing espionage charges. The extension sets a new detention period until January 30, as reported by Russian news agencies.

A Russian court is set to decide whether to place a Russian-American journalist in pre-trial detention for allegedly failing to register as a foreign agent. Alsu Kurmasheva, who was working for US-funded media outlet Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty,...

Russian authorities have detained a US journalist Alsu Kurmasheva for allegedly violating the foreign agent registration norms. This is the second such case which happened in 2023. Know more about it.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich had his pre-trial detention extended by three months by a Russian court on charges of espionage. Gershkovich was arrested in March and his detention has been extended to November. The United States has a...

In a statement, the ministry also said Russia had refused the latest U.S. request for consular access to detained reporter Evan Gershkovich, who faces spying charges.

In light of what their country is inflicting on Ukraine, it is difficult to speak of Russians as victims. That, in fact, may be one major reason many decent Russians feel that Putin's Russia - their Russia - is worse than the Soviet state whose demi...

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the 50% increase in the killing of media workers in 2022 "unbelievable," stressing that freedom of the press "is the foundation of democracy and justice" and it is under threat. At least 67 media workers wer...

"A country that calls itself the strongest, smartest, free and fair country has chickened out and done something stupid by showing what its sworn assurances about protecting freedom of speech and access to information are really worth," Lavrov said ...

Russia's clampdown on freedom of speech and its opponents has escalated once again, with the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, the imprisonment of opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza for spreading "false information" abo...

A Russian judge has upheld the detention of jailed American journalist Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested on spying charges as part of a sweeping Kremlin crackdown on dissent amid the war in Ukraine.US journalist Evan Gershkovich: Mosocow judge upho...

Early in the war, Gershkovich had gone to Belarus, witnessing Russian military ambulances backing up at a hospital 30 miles (50 km) from the Ukrainian border in a report that showed Minsk was supporting Russia's war and indicated that Russian forces...

US officials said they were in touch with the family of detained journalist Evan Gershkovich as well as the newspaper and that the State Department had contacted Russia. "The targeting of American citizens by the Russian government is unacceptable. ...

The United States on Thursday condemned Russia's detention of an American journalist writing for The Wall Street Journal and said it was seeking consular access. US officials said they were in touch with the family of detained journalist Evan Gershk...