Evan Gershkovich has been accused of espionage activities. He works at the Moscow office of The Wall Street Journal.
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The Russian authorities have American journalist Evan Gershkovich arrested on espionage charges. Gershkovich works for the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal in the Moscow correspondent. They accuse him of “carrying out espionage activities for the US government”, as confirmed by the Federal Security Service (FSB).
The FSB has emphasized that the journalist, who has been detained in the city of Yekaterinburg and He faces a prison sentence of up to 20 years.is suspected of “acting on behalf of the United States to getting information constituting state secrets about the activities of one of the companies of the Russian military-industrial complex”.
According to these reports, the journalist was collecting information about the Wagner groupwhich is owned by oligarch Yevgeni Prigozhin (alongside President Vladimir Putin) and has sent mercenaries to Ukraine.
Gershkovich’s latest article published by The Wall Street Journal it’s dated March 28, under the headline “Russian Economy Begins to Unravel.” Gershkovich previously worked for the French news agency AFP and the Russian daily newspaper The Moscow Times. He has also published in The New York Times, The economist, MIT Technology Review, Foreign policy And Political Europeamong other things, according to its website.
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