Russia`s Federal Security Service stated it detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Yekaterinburg on spying allegations, the Interfax information carrier mentioned Thursday.
Gershkovich “is suspected of espionage withinside the pursuits of the American government,” the safety carrier called the FSB stated in a statement, Interfax mentioned. The American reporter “gathered facts constituting a country mystery approximately the sports of one of the companies of the Russian military-commercial complex.”
There turned into no instant remark from the newspaper. Gershkovich turned into formerly a reporter for Agence France-Presse and The Moscow Times.