The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter was first arrested last March while on a reporting trip in the city of Yekaterinburg, about 1,600km (1,000 miles) east of Moscow, by security services.

Prosecutors accused him of working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), accusations that Gershkovich, the WSJ and the US vociferously deny.

It marks the first conviction of a US journalist for espionage in Russia since the Cold War ended more than 30 years ago.

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Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg64npg33r3o

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“The 15 intelligence officers have been engaging in activities that are not compatible with their diplomatic status,” Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt said in a statement.

According to Norway’s Foreign Affairs ministry, the government decision is a response to “the changed security situation in Europe, which has led to an increased intelligence threat from Russia.”

The 15 intelligence officers have been declared persona non grata and will leave Norway soon.

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Source: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/04/13/Norway-Russian-intelligence-officers-expelled/8771681389413/

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Russian authorities have arrested a US journalist working in the country and accused him of espionage, a charge that carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.

Russia’s FSB security service said Evan Gershkovich, a well respected reporter from the Wall Street Journal, “was collecting classified information about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military industrial complex”.

The FSB claimed Gershkovich was “acting on instructions from the American side”. But many observers accused Moscow of engaging in “hostage taking”, by arresting a high-profile reporter who could be used as leverage in a potential prisoner swap.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/30/russia-arrests-wall-street-journal-reporter-on-espionage-charges-evan-gershkovich

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“High-resolution imagery from U-2 flybys revealed that the high-altitude balloon was capable of conducting signals intelligence collection operations,” a senior State Department official told reporters. “The high-altitude balloon’s equipment was clearly for intelligence surveillance and inconsistent with the equipment on board weather balloons.”

That equipment included “an array likely capable of collecting and geolocating communications.” Those photos could contribute to an embarrassment in store for Chinese officials, who insist the balloon was a “civilian airship” deployed for scientific research and blown off course.

“Everybody knows that it’s a lie. Everybody knows that they’re just trying to cover themselves,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) told the Washington Examiner this week. “It’s not just the United States. The international community knows that they use balloons for spying purposes.”

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Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/chinese-balloon-designed-intelligence-surveillance-not-weather

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