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Russia arrests Wall Street Journal reporter on spying charge
AP ^
| March 30, 2023
Posted on 03/30/2023 5:28:15 AM PDT by McGruff
Russia’s top security agency arrested an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal on espionage charges, the first time a U.S. correspondent was put behind bars on spying accusations since the Cold War. The newspaper denied the allegations against Evan Gershkovich.
The Federal Security Service said Thursday that Gershkovich was detained in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg while allegedly trying to obtain classified information.
The FSB, which is the top successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB, alleged that Gershkovich “was acting on the U.S. orders to collect information about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military industrial complex that constitutes a state secret.”
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: americanpravda; associatedpravda; assocpresstitutes; evangershkovich; itistolaugh; newsschadenfreude; schadenfreude; thatsashame; wallstreetjournal; wsj; wsjschadenfreude
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posted on
03/30/2023 5:28:15 AM PDT
by
McGruff
To: McGruff
I hope they collar Paul Gigot next.
To: McGruff
Sheesh! Don’t these people know the Wall Street Journal is a communist front and they arrested their own guy?
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posted on
03/30/2023 5:31:24 AM PDT
by
jmaroneps37
(Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
To: McGruff
Good ole Joe will let the guy rot in jail because it is a guy and not a woman.
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posted on
03/30/2023 5:31:38 AM PDT
by
moviefan8
(life is full of risks so take a shot)
To: McGruff
Well he’s not a tranny basketball player, so he’s screwed.
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posted on
03/30/2023 5:32:22 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: McGruff
“Evan Gershkovich”
American, LOL! Reminds me of that khashoggi guy who also claimed to be American.
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posted on
03/30/2023 5:34:13 AM PDT
by
BobL
To: everyone
Wonder what he was reporting on.
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posted on
03/30/2023 5:36:01 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
To: McGruff
I spent some time in Perm, next door to Ekaterinburg and the place was awash with all sorts of secret/military-related activities. Every cab driver/doorman/"guide" wanted to talk about the activities there (or if they were female, suddenly found me boundlessly attractive) but if you were at all bright you brushed them off and loudly insisted that you weren't interested: they were all obviously KGB agents and were waiting for you to slip up.
This poor guy probably got set up.
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posted on
03/30/2023 5:37:30 AM PDT
by
Chainmail
(Harrassment, to be effective, must be continuous.)
To: McGruff
Can we send ABC / NBC / CBS “journo-listers” over to Russia too please? They’ve all earned a stint at the luxurious gulags.
To: imabadboy99
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posted on
03/30/2023 5:46:27 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
To: McGruff
"The FSB,..., alleged that Gershkovich “was acting on the U.S. orders to collect information about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military industrial complex that constitutes a state secret.” As entangled and inbred as the government and the national media are...this could very well be true. At any rate, as it's a NYT reporter...see you in 20 years, comrade.
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posted on
03/30/2023 5:59:58 AM PDT
by
moovova
("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: McGruff
WOW! Never saw that coming. spit
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posted on
03/30/2023 6:02:08 AM PDT
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: JonPreston
Gigot: What a choke-worthy hunk of neocon swamp-$**t.
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posted on
03/30/2023 6:02:45 AM PDT
by
AAABEST
( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
To: AAABEST
He’s everything I detest about our political class
To: moovova
To: McGruff
Putin knows the chump Biden will make a trade for one of his top spies or arms dealer.
Biden is the fish that keeps biting no matter how many times you toss it back.
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:16:02 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
(....)
To: BobL
Look at the first name. That is not Slavic. Plenty of people have Slavic names in this country. Citizens, including half of my family.
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posted on
03/30/2023 9:39:31 AM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: McGruff
White House refuses to deny that he works for the U.S. Government.
To: McGruff; All
The Kremlin’s big-government (neo-Soviet system) in Russia is arresting any journalist who isn’t pro-Kremlin, no matter for which media he is working for. So nothing new here.
To: USA-FRANCE
“The Kremlin’s big-government (neo-Soviet system) in Russia...”
__________________________________________________
As opposed to the big-government (neo-Soviet system) in the US these days?
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posted on
03/31/2023 3:35:13 AM PDT
by
Bishop_Malachi
(Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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