From a Wall Street Journal story by Ann M. Simmons headlined “U.S. Ambassador Meets With Detained Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich”:

The U.S. ambassador to Russia was granted access to jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on Monday in the second such visit since his detention in March, following weeks of repeated U.S. requests to meet with him.

Lynne Tracy’s visit to Gershkovich at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison comes a little over a week after a court upheld a request from Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, to extend the reporter’s detention to at least Aug. 30 while he awaits trial. Gershkovich’s lawyers had appealed the FSB’s request.