Submitted by tomorrow509 t3_126h2s3 in news
hoosakiwi t1_je949ti wrote
Not a lot of details in the article, but it’s pretty clear the guy is a legitimate journalist who has covered the region extensively.
> The FSB accused Gershkovich of collecting “information constituting a state secret about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex.” It provided no evidence.
> Gershkovich is a journalist covering Russia, Ukraine and the former Soviet Union.
> He was previously a reporter for Agence France-Presse and the Moscow Times and a news assistant at the New York Times, according to his author page on The Wall Street Journal’s website.
Seems like a ploy by Russia to secure another human pawn that they can use in negotiations with the United States.
We should expect more of this…
Still_Blueberry5544 t1_je9yn5m wrote
That’s why the US has told every American to gtfo.
Idc who you are with or how much money you have. You’re not protected if you’re an American there, you’re a target.
apocolipse t1_jeaam58 wrote
Well.... There's 2 exceptions... Steven Seagal and Snowden...
But only because Russia knows we absolutely wont negotiate for Seagal, they can keep him... and we'd just arrest Snowden, so we're not exactly going out of our way to get him back.
Those 2 people who are technically still Americans are pretty safe in Russia from diplomatic/political based retaliatory prosecutions... Literally any other person even those holding US and Russia passports are vulnerable.
Beagle_Knight t1_jee4kgf wrote
Russia: so you are going to give us any prisoner we want?
US: yup, only one condition.
Russia: and that is…?
US: you keep Seagal.
Porkchopp33 t1_jea0yrh wrote
Stay out of Russia we can live with out the news stories
SXOSXO t1_je9vqog wrote
How many more notorious criminals do we have left to give back?
code_archeologist t1_je9zsoe wrote
The US charged (and Brazil arrested) a GRU spy a few weeks ago that was masquerading as a Brazilian grad-student in Washington, collecting intelligence prior to the invasion of Ukraine.
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Deranged40 t1_jealis0 wrote
> We should expect more of this…
Is it just me or does it seem like there's a really strange expectation for us to be surprised about this?
Shitty, terrible regime does shitty, terrible things. More at 11.
DogeSadaharu t1_jef1hwv wrote
The moment the Biden administration traded an arms dealer for Brittany Griner of all people, a WNBA player dumb enough to bring drugs(no matter the amount) into another country; it was to be expected.
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Infinaris t1_jef867l wrote
Start betting money the Russians are pulling this because their FSB asset got busted trying to infiltrate the ICC.
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