Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker told « Face the Nation » on Sunday that the charges against Evan Gershkovich are « entirely bogus. »
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that he had spoken to his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, about the detention of , an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
Gershkovich was arrested last week in Russia on charges of spying for Washington, Russia’s FSB security services claimed Thursday. Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker told « Face the Nation » on Sunday that the charges against Gershkovich are « entirely bogus, » but she said hearing that Blinken and Lavrov spoke is « hugely reassuring to us. »
« We’re hoping that the government will move swiftly to designate Evan as wrongfully detained, » Tucker said.
