The investigation charged Evan Gershkovich, a reporter with the Wall Street Journal’s Moscow bureau, who was arrested in the espionage case. Interfax writes about this, citing sources.
It is stated that he is accused of espionage. According to the investigators, the journalist “acting on instructions from the American side, collected information constituting a state secret on the activities of one of the companies of the Russian military-industrial complex”.
The day before, Deputy Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Ryabkov discussed with US Ambassador to Russia Lynn Tracy the detention of WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich.
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.
Later, the Lefortovo court in Moscow arrested Gershkovich. The court chose a measure of restraint for the American journalist in the form of detention until May 29, 2023. The Gershkovich case is marked “top secret”.
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