Russia Detains Journalist With US Citizenship in New Crackdown
April 30, 2024
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0:52Now PlayingRussia Detains Journalist With US Citizenship in New Crackdown
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as posted by the channelA journalist with dual Russian and US citizenship faces as much as five years in prison after being detained in Russia and charged with failing to register as a “foreign agent,” her employer said Thursday.
Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor based in Prague at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, traveled to Russia in May to attend to a family emergency and was detained at Kazan airport in Tatarstan as she attempted to return on June 2, RFE/RL said in a statement. Officials confiscated her Russian and US passports, accusing her of failing to register the American document with the authorities, and later fined her.
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