 Evan Gerskovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter falsely accused by Russian authorities in a spying ring, was sentenced today to 16 years in a high-security penal colony after being wrongfully convicted in a hurried secret trial that the government here in the U.S. has condemned as a sham. The court's Friday verdict after three days of hearings was widely viewed as a foregone conclusion since acquittals in Russian espionage trials are exceedingly rare. It's 6-16.