An indictment of The Wall Street Journal reporter has been finalized and his case was filed to the Sverdlovsky Regional Court in the Ural Mountains city about 900 miles east of Moscow... Gershkovich, 32, is accused of gathering secret information on orders from the CIA about Uralvagonzavod, a facility in the Sverdlovsk region that produces and repairs military equipment...
The Biden administration has sought to negotiate his release, but Russia's Foreign Ministry said Moscow would consider a prisoner swap only after a verdict in his trial... The charges against Gershkovich were false and baseless... We had hoped to avoid this moment.
Russia's latest move toward a sham trial is, while expected, deeply disappointing and still no less outrageous... The Russian regime's smearing of Evan is repugnant, disgusting and based on calculated and transparent lies... Evan's case is an assault on free press.
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