American newspaper The Wall Street Journal reacted to the detention of journalist Evan Gershkovich, who wrote about Russia in the Moscow office of WSJ, in Yekaterinburg. His statement was published area newspapers.
“The Wall Street Journal is deeply concerned about Mr Hershkowitz’s safety,” he said.
According to the newspaper, Gershkovich was accredited by the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work as a journalist in Russia.
March 30 FSB of Russia stated About the detention of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich in Yekaterinburg. The intelligence service said that the journalist collected information about the activities of one of the enterprises in the military-industrial complex of the country, on the instruction of the United States, a criminal case was filed against him under an article about espionage.
Gershkovich in mid-March to come to the Urals to collect material about the attitude of the people to the Wagner PMC.