American journalist detained in Russia, charged with failing to register as a foreign agent

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A U.S. journalist has been detained in Russia, her employer said, the second such case since the war in Ukraine started. Alsu Kurmasheva, a dual Russian-American reporter with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty , was detained in the southwest Russian city of Kazan on Wednesday while awaiting the return of her passports, her employer said in a statement released on Thursday.

Kurmasheva was waiting for her passports to be returned when the new charge was announced on Wednesday, RFE/RL said. It has called for her immediate release. Russian news outlet Tatar-Inform said Russian authorities accused Kurmasheva of 'conducting a targeted collection of military information about Russian activities via the Internet in order to transmit information to foreign sources.' NBC News could not verify this claim.

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