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> Russian authorities have detained an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal on espionage charges, Russia's top security agency has said.

> The Federal Security Service, the top KGB successor agency, said on Thursday that Evan Gershkovich was arrested in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg while allegedly trying to obtain classified information.

> He is the first reporter for an American news outlet to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War and his arrest comes amid bitter global tensions over the fighting in Ukraine.

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