Russia's ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, said Washington had threatened retaliation after Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained on espionage charges, and suggested it might be time to cut the number of U.S. journalists in Russia. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on March 30 that it had detained Gershkovich 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 WSJ has adamantly denied the allegations and demanded his release while the U.S. State Department has formally announced that Gershkovich is being "wrongfully detained." To read the original story by Reuters, click here.
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