2 minutes agoRussia arrests Wall Street Journal journalist
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(3 years ago)Russia's top security agency has declared an American media reporter Wall Street Journal has been arrested over spying allegations. No evidence has been given about these claims. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Agency for Security and Counter-intelligence that has followed the Soviet-era KGB Agency.
The Russian Security Service (FSB) Agency for Security and Anti-discovery that followed the Soviet-era KGB agency said on Thursday that Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Yekaterinburg, the town of the Ural Mountains, as he was allegedly trying to obtain classified information.
Gershkovich is the first journalist of an American media media person to be arrested on spying charges in Russia since the Cold War. His arrest comes amid mounting tensions between Moscow and Washington because of the war in Ukraine.
The security service claims Gerskovic “was acting on American orders to collect information on the activities of one of the Russian military industrial complex making up state secret”. The FSB offered no evidence of these claims.
The FSB didn't let him know when the arrest took place.
32-year-old Gershkovich, who is a US city, could face 20 years in prison if convicted of spying.
Gershkovich reports Russia and Ukraine as correspondent at the Moscow office of the Wall Street Journal. The FSB noted that he had accreditation from the Russian Foreign Ministry to work as a journalist.
His latest report by Moscow, released earlier this week, addressed the slowdown in Russia's economy following sanctions imposed by Western states following Russian troops' entry into Ukraine last year.
