Russian court upholds extension of US reporter’s detention: AFP

A Russian court on Thursday rejected an appeal to release US reporter Evan Gershkovich from detention in Moscow, an AFP journalist in the courtroom said, ahead of his trial on contested espionage charges. Gershkovich, whose arrest by Russia’s FSB security services in late March sparked a global outcry, appeared in a glass cage in the […]

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