Russia’s top security agency says that Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, has been arrested on suspicion of espionage.
Russia’s top security agency has arrested an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal on suspicion of espionage, the first time a U.S. correspondent has been put behind bars on spying accusations since the Cold War. The newspaper denied the allegations against Evan Gershkovich.Ural Mountains city of YekaterinburgThe FSB — which is the top successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB — alleged that Gershkovich “was acting on the U.S.
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Gershkovich is the first American reporter to be arrested on espionage allegations in Russia since September 1986, when Nicholas Daniloff, a Moscow correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, was arrested by the KGB. He wasin a swap for an employee of the Soviet Union’s United Nations mission who was arrested by the FBI.
The FSB didn’t say when the arrest took place. Gershkovich could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of espionage.The FSB noted that he had accreditation from the Russian Foreign Ministry to
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