Kremlin: Foreign journalists can carry on working in Russia

Journalist Evan Gershkovich is accused of carrying out espionage. (AFP/File)

• FSB recently arrested a WSJ reporter on espionage charges

MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Friday that all accredited foreign journalists could continue to work in Russia, a day after the country's FSB security service said it had arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges.
The Kremlin said reporter Evan Gershkovich had been carrying out espionage "under the cover" of journalism. Russia has presented no evidence to support the charges - the first such case against an American reporter since the end of the Cold War - which have been denied by the WSJ.