Russian Federal Security Service investigators have formally charged Evan Gershkovich with espionage but the Wall Street Journal reporter denied the charges and said he was working as a journalist, domestic news agencies said on Friday.
in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg and had opened an espionage case against him for collecting what it said were state secrets about the military industrial complex.The Wall Street JournalTASS reported that FSB investigators had formally charged Gershkovich with carrying out espionage in the interests of the United States, but that Gershkovich, 31, had denied the charge.
Gershkovich is the first American journalist detained in Russia on espionage charges since the end of the Cold War.The Kremlin said Gershkovich had been carrying out espionage “under the cover” of journalism. The United States has urged Russia to release Gershkovich and cast the Russian claims of espionage as ridiculous.Russian President Vladimir Putin has yet to comment publicly on the case.
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