The trial of US reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been imprisoned for more than a year for alleged espionage, is due to begin in Russia on Wednesday. The trial of the correspondent for the Wall Street Journal newspaper is scheduled to take place in the city of Yekaterinburg in the Urals. The 32-year-old reporter denied the charges during questioning. A spokesman for the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office said that according to the investigation, Gershkovich had collected secret information on behalf of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Specifically, the case concerns the production a…