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Gershkovich has been charged with espionage.<\/p>\n<p>The officials didn\u2019t provide any evidence to back up the accusations.<\/p>\n<p>Gershkovich was detained while on a reporting trip to Yekaterinburg in March 2023 and accused of spying for the U.S. The Federal Security Service, or FSB, alleged at the time he was acting on U.S. orders to collect state secrets but also provided no evidence. Washington designated him as wrongfully detained.<\/p>\n<p>He was the first U.S. journalist taken into custody on espionage charges since Nicholas Daniloff in 1986 at the height of the Cold War. 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