US-Russian journalist convicted in secret trial gets 6 1/2 years in penal colony, court says
Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was sentenced to 6½ years in prison at a secret trial for spreading false information about the Russian army. Kurmasheva was convicted the same day that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich […]
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