
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a correspondent of the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun in the Sakhalin region, accusing him of spying on behalf of a Japanese intelligence agency.
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The correspondent was accredited to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A correspondent for the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun has been detained in the Sakhalin region of Russia's Far East on suspicion of espionage, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced.
“The illegal activities of a Japanese citizen, a correspondent of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk editorial office of the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper, accredited to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, suspected of spying on behalf of a Japanese intelligence agency, were interrupted,” the FSB press office reported.

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