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Evan Gershkovich in court as spy trial starts in Russia
For nearly fifteen months, Evan Gershkovich has been locked away in a Moscow jail.
Today the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter went on trial a thousand miles from the Russian capital in Yekaterinburg: the city where he was arrested on espionage charges while on a reporting trip for the Wall Street Journal.
We were among the group of media allowed into a courtroom to see him before the start of proceedings at the Sverdlovsk Regional Courthouse.
Head shaven, and wearing a check shirt...