MOSCOW — A court in Moscow on Tuesday expanded the confinement of Money Road Diary columnist Evan Gershkovich, captured on undercover work charges, until Jan. 30, Russian news offices revealed.
The meeting occurred away from plain view since specialists express subtleties of the crook body of evidence against the American columnist are ordered.
Gershkovich, 32, was kept in Spring while on a detailing excursion to the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, around 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) east of Moscow. Russia’s Government Security Administration claimed that the correspondent, “following up on the guidelines of the American side, gathered data comprising a state mysterious about the exercises of one of the ventures of the Russian military-modern complex.”
Gershkovich and the Diary deny the claims, and the U.S. government has pronounced him to be unfairly kept. Russian specialists haven’t point by point any proof to help the undercover work charges.
Gershkovich is the primary American columnist to be accused of undercover work in Russia starting around 1986, when Nicholas Daniloff, a Moscow reporter for U.S. News and World Report, was captured by the KGB. He is being held at Moscow’s Lefortovo jail, infamous for its cruel circumstances.
Examiners have brought up that Moscow might be involving imprisoned Americans as negotiating concessions after U.S.- Russian strains took off when Russia sent troops into Ukraine. Something like two U.S. residents captured in Russia as of late — including WNBA star Brittney Griner — have been traded for Russians imprisoned in the U.S.
The Russian Unfamiliar Service has said it will think about a trade for Gershkovich solely after a decision in his preliminary. In Russia, surveillance preliminaries can keep going for over a year.
