BREAKING: American journalist snatched by authorities in Russia.
. The FSB says that Gershkovich was “suspected of spying in the interests of the U.S. government” and that his allegedly “illegal activities… have been stopped.”
The FSB further added that Gershkovich was arrested “while trying to obtain secret information,” and that he was acting “on the instructions of the United States” while collecting materials “on the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex.” Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti said the materials constituted a “state secret.”
The FSB’s Investigation Department opened a criminal case of espionage against Gershkovich under Article 276 of Russia’s Criminal Code. If convicted, according toReports of a man being detained in Yekaterinburg emerged in local media on Wednesday. The Telegram channel of one outlet in the citythat one of its readers had witnessed someone being abducted at the Bukowski Grill restaurant in the center of Yekaterinburg.
A source among Western journalists in the Russian capital told Meduza that as well as the visit to Yekaterinburg, Gershkovich also traveled to Nizhny Tagil in Sverdlovsk Oblast. Nizhny Tagil is home to the headquarters of, Gershkovich covers Russia, Ukraine, and the former Soviet Union for the paper. He previously worked for Agence France-Presse, the
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