Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, has been imprisoned in Russia for more than a year on espionage charges for which authorities have shown no evidence.
U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich inside a defendants' cage before a hearing at the Moscow City Court in February. American journalist Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal will soon stand trial in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on charges of spying for the CIA, Russian authorities said Thursday, even as they continued to disclose no evidence to support the accusations.
The State Department has declared him and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who was arrested in 2018 on similar charges, to be wrongfully detained, a designation that commits the federal government to work for their release. Other officials have confirmed initial discussions had taken place about an exchange that would have involved Gershkovich, Krasikov, and Alexei Navalny, the Russian political opposition figure who died suddenly in an Arctic prison in February. Navalny’s family and associates said he was killed to prevent such an exchange from taking place.
Those detentions have fueled speculation that Russia is seeking to gain more leverage. Moscow denies that the arrests are politically motivated and insists each detainee has violated Russian law.
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