The request of The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested for spying in Russia, to visit the consulate from the US Embassy was again denied as a retaliatory measure. It has been announced press service Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
“Consulate visit request from the US Embassy in Moscow <…> Gershkovich was once again rejected.”
As announced by the Russian Foreign Ministry, this decision is taken in response to the visa denial of Russian journalists in the Foreign Ministry pool who were unable to fly to New York to accompany Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. To Russia’s Presidency of the UN Security Council.
Former Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova statedThat the US commits “industrial-scale visa fraud”. According to him, Washington “demonstrated” about issuing visas to journalists from the Lavrov pool.