• Reuters

    U.S. embassy in Russia says no evidence behind charges against Gershkovich

    The United States embassy in Russia said on Wednesday that Moscow had failed to provide any evidence to support espionage charges against Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, and that the case was about the Kremlin using U.S. citizens to achieve its political objectives. In a statement on the first day of Gershkovich's closed trial on spying charges, the embassy said that since his arrest, "Russian authorities have failed to provide any evidence supporting the charges against him, failed to justify his continued detention, and failed to explain why Evan's work as a journalist constitutes a crime."

  • Local Journalism Initiative

    Still pristine

    Mike Shouldice of Rankin Inlet spends a lot of time out on the land and, according to him, tales of heaps of garbage on the land are just that – tales! Shouldice said he used to spend time on the land all-year round, but these days he spends far less time out there between November and late February. He said he hasn't noticed any huge differences in the amount of garbage, or lack thereof, out on the land, at all, over the years. “Beer cans were the big thing on the drive-out-road area near the b

  • The Canadian Press

    A look at Yekaterinburg, the Russian city where US reporter has gone on trial

    Facts about Yekaterinburg, the industrial city in Russia's Ural Mountains where U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich went on trial Wednesday on espionage charges that his employer denounced as a sham: