Moscow's arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges is the first time a US correspondent has been put behind bars on spying accusations since the Cold War.
Mr Gershkovich could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of espionage.
Russia's top security agency has arrested an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal on espionage charges, the first time a US correspondent has been put behind bars on spying accusations since the Cold War. Mr Gershkovich is the first American reporter to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since September 1986, when Nicholas Daniloff, a Moscow correspondent for US News and World Report, was arrested by the KGB.
The FSB, which is the top successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB, alleged that Mr Gershkovich "was acting on the US orders to collect information about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex that constitutes a state secret".It's been a year since Russia launched its full-scale Ukraine invasion. Could it end this year?The agency did not say when the arrest took place.
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