Why Russia has kept a Wall Street Journal reporter in jail for a year — and counting
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Why Russia has kept a Wall Street Journal reporter in jail for a year — and counting

Evan Gershkovich‚ the Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia on charges of spying‚ just had three months added to his jail time — and he hasn’t even gone to trial yet. It’s been a year since Gershkovich‚ who had covered the country for five years at that point‚ was arrested by Russian security forces. He was on assignment in Yekaterinburg‚ a city in the Ural Mountains nearly 900 miles east of the Journal’s Moscow bureau. And because of Russia’s opaque and autocratic...