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The White House on Thursday condemned Russia over the arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter on allegations of espionage, charges the newspaper has denied.
State Department officials have been in direct contact with Kremlin officials and are “actively working” to secure consular access to Evan Gershkovich after Russia’s Federal Security Service announced it had detained the reporter in the city of Yekaterinburg, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
She said White House and State Department officials have communicated with Mr.
