The Wall Street Journal has vehemently denied these allegations from Russia's Secret Services. This is really an unprecedented step for Russia to take, at least in post-Soviet times. The charges here are clearly trumped up. There's no question at all that Evan is a journalist and nothing but a journalist.
Russia’s arrest of a Wall Street Journal correspondent is heading toward a diplomatic crisis—and will certainly chill foreign reporting in the country. It is startlingly easy to siphon money out of America’s social-welfare programmes, but devilishly difficult to thwart those efforts without threatening needy families. And ChatGPT may make things up, but it does so fluently in more than 50 languages.
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