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Why Russia arrested an American reporter

Today, Explained

The Kremlin's Attempt to Charge Russians for Espionage

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Evan Gerskovich was charged with espionage in order to set in train a process for Russian spies arrested in the West to be swapped for him. I would also just like to emphasize to your listeners that the US government does not use the CIA does not use US journalists for cover. It's actually prescribed by law is prevented under legislation from doing that even receiving intelligence from US journalists let alone using journalists as cover. So you're dealing with a very different regime and it seems to me as with so much about Putin's Russia when you hear Putin's Kremlin saying X, Y or Z that a foreign country is doing it's usually them projecting.

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