Photo Credit: YouTube screenshotThe Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich has spent 100 days in Russian detention on charges of espionage which he and his newspaper have strongly denied. Gershkovich’s parents, Ella and Mikhail, fled the Soviet Union separately in the late 1970s and met in New York City in 1979. They later moved to Princeton, NJ, where Evan and his sister grew up speaking Russian at home. Gershkovich was the first American journalist to be arrested in Russia on espionage charges since the end of the Cold War. A Russian court rejected Gershkovich’s on April 18.

Source: Wall Street Journal July 09, 2023 09:35 UTC