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A journalist with the Wall Street Journal — Evan Gershkovich — has been arrested in Russia on suspicion of espionage, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) says.
An FSB statement said: “The illegal activities of the correspondent of the Moscow bureau of the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, US citizen Evan Gershkovich, born in 1991, accredited at the Russian Foreign Ministry, suspected of espionage in the interests of the American government, have been suppressed.”
State news agency TASS reported he was detained in Yekaterinburg, on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains.
