Tatar-Inform posted video showing Kurmasheva being marched into an administrative building accompanied by four men, two of them wearing balaclavas. The Committee to Protect Journalists media rights organization called the accusations "spurious," demanding that the charges be dropped and Kurmasheva released. Kurmasheva, an editor with RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir service, is being held in a temporary detention center, said Tatar-Inform, a state-held news agency in the Tatarstan republic. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovichwas arrested for alleged spying in March. journalist to be detained in Russia this year. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty editor Alsu Kurmasheva is the second U.S. government-funded media company has been detained in Russia and charged with failing to register as a "foreign agent," her employer said Thursday. ![]() A Russian-American journalist working for a U.S.
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