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| Russia arrests Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges | Russia arrests Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges |
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| Evan Gershkovich could face up to 20 years in prison after allegedly ‘collecting classified information’ | Evan Gershkovich could face up to 20 years in prison after allegedly ‘collecting classified information’ |
| Russia’s top security agency has said a reporter for the Wall Street Journal has been arrested on espionage charges. | Russia’s top security agency has said a reporter for the Wall Street Journal has been arrested on espionage charges. |
| The Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that Evan Gershkovich had been detained in the Ural Mountains city of Ekaterinburg while allegedly trying to obtain classified information. | |
| The security service alleged that Gershkovich “was collecting classified information about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military industrial complex”. | The security service alleged that Gershkovich “was collecting classified information about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military industrial complex”. |
| The FSB did not say when the arrest took place. Gershkovich could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of espionage. | The FSB did not say when the arrest took place. Gershkovich could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of espionage. |
| Gershkovich is the first reporter for a US news outlet to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since the cold war. His arrest comes amid bitter tensions between Moscow and Washington DC over the fighting in Ukraine. | |
| The FSB alleged that Gershkovich “was acting on the US orders to collect information about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military industrial complex that constitutes a state secret”. | |
| Gershkovich covers Russia and Ukraine as a correspondent in the Wall Street Journal’s Moscow bureau. The FSB noted that he had accreditation from the Russian foreign ministry to work as a journalist. | |
| His latest report from Moscow, published earlier this week, focused on the Russian economy’s slowdown amid western sanctions imposed when Russian troops entered Ukraine last year. |