FILE - Car passes the building of the Federal Security Service (FSB, Soviet KGB successor) in Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, July 24, 2017. Russia’s top security agency says a reporter for the Wall Street Journal has been arrested on espionage charges. The Federal Security Service (FSB), the top KGB successor agency, said Thursday, March 30, 2023 that Evan Gershkovich was detained in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg while allegedly trying to obtain classified information. (AP Photo, File)
Russia Reporter Arrested
Russia’s top security agency says it has arrested a reporter for the Wall Street Journal on espionage charges. The Federal Security Service says that Evan Gershkovich was detained for trying to obtain classified information. Gershkovich was in Russia covering the war in Ukraine. He is the first American reporter to put behind bars for spying since the Cold War.
