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Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who has spent a year behind bars in Russia, is awaiting a trial on espionage charges the White House says are fabricated but could still see him jailed for decades.The US-born son of Soviet emigres covered Russia for six years, including a stint with AFP, as the Kremlin made independent, on-the-ground reporting increasingly dangerous and illegal.
President Vladimir Putin said last month he would like to see Gershkovich released as part of a prisoner exchange, but cautioned certain “terms” were being discussed. Gershkovich reported extensively on how ordinary Russians experienced the Ukraine conflict, speaking to the families of dead soldiers and Putin critics.
In his first contact with the outside world, Gershkovich wrote a handwritten letter to his parents in Russian.For months those notes were his only form of contact with the outside world, bar visits from lawyers and US diplomats.“Mom, you unfortunately, for better or worse, prepared me well for jail food,” he wrote in one letter.
When he arrived in Russia as a fresh-faced journalist at the English-language outlet The Moscow Times, he immediately fell in step with the job. Friends say his character — open, gregarious, and extremely sociable — made Gershkovich’s reporting even better.
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