Russian spy charges for U.S. reporter spark outrage -
The Wall Street Journal vehemently denied the charges against Evan Gershkovich, a veteran journalist who speaks fluent Russian. He was taken into custody by Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, in the city of Yekaterinburg. Mr. Gershkovich was filing stories from Russia as recently as this week, but Russian officials said he was using his credentials as a journalist for “activities that have nothing to do with journalism” and had acted on direct orders from the U.S. government.
Moscow offered no public evidence to substantiate the allegations against Mr. Gershkovich, which Biden administration officials condemned. In its own statement, the Journal denied the allegations in a statement about Mr. Gershkovich, who works out of the newspaper’s Moscow bureau. The detention comes just two weeks after an encounter between Russian fighter jets and a U.S. American MQ-9 Reaper unmanned drone over the Black Sea that resulted in the American craft crashing into the water, an incident that only fueled fears that direct conflict between the U.S. and Russia was drawing closer.
But the Journal reporter’s most recent piece highlighted the sweeping effects that Western sanctions have had on the Russian economy, raising the question of whether Mr. Putin ordered the detention to silence such critical coverage.
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