July 20, 2024 1:16 am
Gershkovich, the American-born son of immigrants from the former Soviet Union, is the first Western journalist arrested on espionage charges in post-Soviet Russia.
July 19, 2024 10:20 pm
President Joe Biden in a statement after the conviction said that Gershkovich “was targeted by the Russian government because he is a journalist and an American.”
July 16, 2024 3:48 pm
Authorities arrested Gershkovich on March 29, 2023, and claimed without offering any evidence that he was gathering secret information for the US.
June 26, 2024 6:47 pm
The American-born son of immigrants from the USSR, Evan Gershkovich is the first Western journalist arrested on espionage charges in post-Soviet Russia. He was arrested when he was on a reporting trip to Yekaterinburg, in the Ural Mountains, and claimed he was gathering secret information for the US
September 09, 2020 5:11 pm
The journalist was covering protests and class boycotts that had broken out in Inner Mongolia over a move to increase the use of Chinese in schools where Mongolian has been the main language of instruction.
January 04, 2018 4:06 pm
The H1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.
October 19, 2014 2:44 am
A video showing James Foley's killing at the hands of Islamic State extremists was posted on the Internet in August.
September 03, 2014 4:43 pm
Steven Sotloff was #Israel citizen RIP," tweeted Paul Hirschson, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.




