Wall Street Journal (WSJ) correspondent Evan Gershkovich used a journalist’s visa and accreditation to cover up non-journalistic activities. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
“What an employee of the American edition of the Wall Street Journal was doing in Yekaterinburg has nothing to do with journalism,” Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel.
Recall that on March 30 it became known that the FSB in Yekaterinburg arrested the American journalist Evan Gershkovich. The WSJ correspondent was suspected of having collected secret state documents on a Russian defense industry company.
The Wall Street Journal said it was ‘deeply concerned’ by the detention of a journalist in Russia Russian Foreign Ministry commented on detention of WSJ correspondent in Yekaterinburg
