MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Evan Gershkovich, a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal’s Moscow bureau accredited to the Russian Foreign Ministry, has been arrested on suspicion of espionage in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday.
“Illegal activities of UA citizen Evan Gershkovich, born in 1991, accredited to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, correspondent for the Moscow office of the US newspaper The Wall Street Journal, who is suspected of spying for the US government, have been stopped,” the FSB said into a statement.
By order of the United States, Gershkovich secret information collected “about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex.” He was arrested in Yekaterinburg while trying to obtain classified information.
