Russia’s Security Service Arrests American Reporter

Russia’s Federal Security Service has arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on “suspicion of espionage in the interests of the American government,” and a court has ordered him to pretrial custody until May 29. Click to expand Image ID photo of Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal.  © AFP/Getty Images Gershkovich, 31, has been living in and reporting on Russia since at least 2017, first for the Moscow Times and then Agence France-Press, and was accredited by the Russian Foreign Ministry to work as a reporter in Russia. The Wall Street Journal…

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