Moscow has accused the Wall Street Journal reporter of spying.

US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy said she visited journalist Evan Gershkovich in Russia and found him in good spirits.Kara-Murza also has United Kingdom citizenship. France, Germany and the United Kingdom were among Western governments which condemned the sentence, the harshest of its kind since the invasion began.Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician and long-term critic of Putin as well as Moscow’s war in Ukraine, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of “treason” and discrediting the Russian military.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Brazil as President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pushed for dialogue in Ukraine.

“They surpass the military-political alliances of the Cold War era… They are very stable,” he said in translated remarks broadcast on Russian TV.

Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu said his country’s ties with Moscow were “very strong” and had “entered a new era”, during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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