Reporter Arrested in Russia on Charges of Spying

Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich has been arrested in Russia on suspicion of espionage, CNN reports.

New York Times: “The Federal Security Service, known by its Russian acronym FSB, said in a statement about Mr. Gershkovich that ‘on the instructions of the United States, he was collecting information about one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex, which constitute a state secret.” The FSB is a successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB.”