MOSCOW. March 30 (Interfax) - Evan Gershkovich, U.S. citizen and Wall Street Journal correspondent, has been detained in Yekaterinburg on suspicion of espionage, the public relations center of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday.
"The Russian Federal Security Service put an end to the illegal activity of U.S. citizen Evan Gershkovich, born in 1991, a correspondent of the Moscow bureau of the U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal accredited by the Russian Foreign Ministry, suspected of spying for the U.S. government," the FSB said.
According to the FSB, Gershkovich, "acting on the orders of the U.S., was gathering information about a Russian defense plant that constitutes a state secret."