U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that he had spoken to his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, about the detention of Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that he had spoken to his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, about the detention ofGershkovich was arrested last week in Russia on charges of spying for Washington, Russia's FSB security services claimed Thursday.
Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, is seen in an undated photo from his LinkedIn profile. According to the statement from the Secretary of State's office, Blinken"conveyed the United States' grave concern over Russia's unacceptable detention of a U.S. citizen journalist" and"called for his immediate release."
Gershkovich, 31, was working with press accreditation issued by the Russian foreign ministry. But the statement said he had been detained for gathering information"on an enterprise of the Russian military-industrial complex."
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