The Russian FSB announced Thursday they had arrested Wall Street Journal Moscow correspondent Evan Gershkovich on charges of spying, CNN reports. “The illegal activities of the correspondent of the Moscow bureau of the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, US citizen Evan Gershkovich, born in 1991, accredited at the Russian Foreign Ministry, suspected of espionage in the interests of the American government, have been suppressed,” said the FSB in a statement.
Probably not a coincidence that Gershkovich on Wednesday filed a story titled “Russia’s Economy Is Starting to Come Undone” quoting indicted scumbag oligarch Oleg Deripaska as saying “There will be no money next year, we need foreign investors,” at a recent economic conference.