{
  "id": 9967024,
  "title": "Russian president called WSJ reporter an ‘idiot’ and believed he was a spy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/russian-president-called-wsj-reporter-an-idiot-and-believed-he-was-a",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-26T10:39:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Voice of Ukraine",
    "slug": "new-voice-of-ukraine",
    "url": "https://english.nv.ua/nation/putin-called-gershkovich-an-idiot-believed-he-was-a-spy-memoir-says-50644817.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared convinced that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich really was a spy and once angrily called him an “idiot” while defending his arrest to a foreign leader, Gershkovich writes in his forthcoming memoir.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}