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.
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.”
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
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.
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.
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