{"id":67986,"date":"2024-06-26T14:43:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T14:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/us-journalist-evan-gershkovich-in-court-as-spy-trial-starts-in-russia-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T14:43:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T14:43:55","slug":"us-journalist-evan-gershkovich-in-court-as-spy-trial-starts-in-russia-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/us-journalist-evan-gershkovich-in-court-as-spy-trial-starts-in-russia-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"US journalist Evan Gershkovich in court as spy trial starts in Russia | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly fifteen months, Evan Gershkovich has been locked away in a Moscow jail.<\/p>\n<p>The US journalist went on trial on <!--more--> Tuesday, in Yekaterinburg &#8211; the Russian city where he was arrested on espionage charges while on a reporting trip for the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors claim that the American journalist had been collecting classified information about a Russian tank manufacturer near Yekaterinburg on behalf of America\u2019s Central Intelligence Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gershkovich, his employer and the US government vehemently reject the charge. If convicted the maximum possible sentence is twenty years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#EvanGershkovich #Russia #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly fifteen months, Evan Gershkovich has been locked away in a Moscow jail. The US journalist went on trial on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}