US reporter Evan Gershkovich was sentenced by a Russian court on Friday to 16 years in a strict penal colony, according to an AFP reporter in the court. The verdict was reached after a closed door espionage trial — slammed as a “sham” by the White House and his employer, the Wall Street Journal — […]
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