A Wall Street Journal reporter has been jailed in Russia since his arrest last week, when he was accused of trying to obtain state secrets related to the Russian military — days after the U.S. indicted a Russian man in Brazil on espionage charges.
SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN:
I was immediately impressed by his energy, his spirit, his curiosity, his love for Russia. He is of Russian heritage. His parents were émigrés from the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Evan was born in America, very much American with that history, culture and upbringing, but nonetheless speaking Russian and with a deep appreciation for Russian history and culture.
And it was that type of curiosity, that type of sort of industrious, energetic reporting that he brought to his work atand to the reporting of the war, which, as I said, began just a month after he started at the. He was in Belarus shortly after the war began, where he saw Russian troops moving over the border into Ukraine, and also coming out of Ukraine as wounded being taken to hospitals in Belarus.
In fact, this is the open secret of being a foreign correspondent anywhere in the world, Moscow included, that part of the job is befriending the locals, the local journalists, who have extensive knowledge of the context, deep contacts within society, have their antenna up to stories that we might miss. And those relationships, friendly, professional, collegial and otherwise, are, one, just wonderfully enriching personally, but also professionally help us do our job.
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