A journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has been detained in Russia and charged with failure to register as a foreign agent, the news outlet said on Wednesday.
Alsu Kurmasheva, who serves as an editor for the outlet's Tatar-Bashkir Service, is a dual U.S.-Russian citizen, RFE/RL said.
Kurmasheva, who lives in Prague, traveled to Russia for a "family emergency" in May and was detained at the airport in Kazan as she awaited her return flight on June 2, RFE/RL said. Officials took her U.S. and Russian passports.
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