MOSCOW: Russian investigators formally charged Evan Gershkovich with espionage on Friday, but the Wall Street Journal reporter denied the charges and said he was working as a journalist. Russia’s Federal Security Service, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said on March 30 that it had detained Gershkovich in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg and had opened an espionage case against the …
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April 8, 2023