Back in June of 2019, Russia did something unusual. It dropped criminal charges against a journalist.

Yvonne Gulenoff, a Russian journalist, was detained, then released after police admitted there was a lack of evidence.

Tomorrow there was set to be a march through Central Moscow in support of Yvonne.

That is American reporter Evan Gerschkovich who was following the story from

Moscow I spoke with him about that public support the March of Golinov

even though he's been released and all charges drop this could go ahead.

Exactly and people are posting that they're not coming out so much for Yvonne as for people like

him including other journalists who are currently sitting in jail on

essentially fabricated trumped up charges.

Fast forward to last year, March of 2023,

Evan Gerschkovic was himself arrested.

Russia's security agency says it has arrested a US journalist working for the Wall Street Journal in

Moscow on charges of espionage.

Gerskovich was detained while on assignment for the journal and accused of trying to obtain state secrets.

He is the first American reporter to be charged with espionage in Russia since 1986.

Gerskovich and the journal deny the allegations. The US State Department has

designated Gerschkovic as wrongfully detained, an official phrase that opens the way for government efforts to secure his

release. But today, Evan Gerschkovich remains imprisoned.

The second program just told me that Russian state media is now reporting that the

Russian court has extended his detention for another three months.

And today a Moscow district court extended his pretrial detention.

This week Russia added three more months to his detention.

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