Spy Suspicion: Journalist Arrested In Russia

<h4>Spy Suspicion&colon; Journalist Arrested In Russia<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports a journalist has been arrested in Russia on the suspicion of espionage&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The journalist &comma; Evan Gershkovich&comma; who works for Wall Street has been described as involving in has been arrested in &&num;8220&semi;illegal&&num;8221&semi; operations according to Russia’s security service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The illegal activities of the correspondent of the Moscow bureau of the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal&comma; US citizen Evan Gershkovich&comma; born in 1991&comma; accredited at the Russian Foreign Ministry&comma; suspected of espionage in the interests of the American government&comma; have been suppressed&comma;” Russia’s Federal Security Service&comma; or FSB&comma; said in a statement published Thursday by state news agency RIA Novosti&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Gershkovich was detained in Yekaterinburg&comma; on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains&comma; state news agency TASS reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The FSB statement said Gershkovich was detained &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;while trying to obtain secret information” relating to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Gershkovich covers Russia&comma; Ukraine and the former Soviet Union&comma; according to his biography on the Wall Street Journal’s website&period; He previously worked for news agency Agence France-Presse&comma; the Moscow Times and the New York Times&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Wall Street Journal is deeply concerned for the safety of Mr&period; Gershkovich&comma;” the US newspaper said in a statement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Credit&colon;CNN<&sol;p>&NewLine;