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The Economist
The Economist
19 Jul 2024


NextImg:Russia sentences Evan Gershkovich to 16 years on bogus spying charges
Europe | Hostage racket

Russia sentences Evan Gershkovich to 16 years on bogus spying charges

The Kremlin wants to barter the American reporter for its spies

|Kyiv

THE INEVITABILITY of the espionage verdict against Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter, was never in doubt. Fully 99.85% of Russian trials end in conviction, and the Kremlin was not about to let this trumped-up affair prove an exception. The court sentenced Mr Gershkovich to 16 years of hard labour, just two years short of the prosecutors’ request. All eyes are on what happens next. The fact that the formal sentencing was brought forward by several weeks, at the insistence of Mr Gershkovich’s lawyers, suggested that a prisoner exchange may be in the offing.

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The division of Cyprus looks indefinite

The island’s Greeks and Turks seem contented, for the moment, to stay apart


J.D. Vance, an honorary Frenchman, sends Europe into panic mode

Millennial, MAGA champion, hillbilly…Gaullist


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