Russia’s Security Service Arrests Wall Street Journal Reporter on Espionage Charges

Russia’s Security Service Arrests Wall Street Journal Reporter on Espionage Charges
The headquarters (aka Lubianka) of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the former KGB in Moscow. MAXIM MARMUR/AFP/Getty Images
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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a Wall Street Journal reporter, accusing him of espionage on behalf of the United States.

The FSB, the top domestic security and counterintelligence agency that succeeded the Soviet-era KGB, said on March 29 that it had detained Evan Gershkovich, a Moscow-based correspondent, in the city of Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains, roughly 900 miles east of Moscow.

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