Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov all but declared jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich to be guilty of spying but confirmed talks for a potential exchange.
As Russia’s trial of American journalist Evan Gershkovich for alleged spying resumed this week, the country’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, all but declared the Wall Street Journalist correspondent guilty — echoing earlier Kremlin remarks although authorities have not made public any evidence to support their allegations.
Russian prosecutors allege that the journalist was operating on the orders of the CIA, gathering secret information about Uralvagonzavod, a state-owned machine-building factory in Nizhny Tagil, about 87 miles southeast of Yekaterinburg. The factory manufactures tanks for Russia’s war on Ukraine. Before Gershkovich’s trial opened in Yekaterinburg on June 26, Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker described the charges as baseless, saying they would “inevitably lead to a bogus conviction for an innocent man.”
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