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The Detention of the Hokkaido Shimbun Reporter Was "Hostage Diplomacy" - The American Newspaper Man Who Released Him Criticizes Russia.

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This website is from Cedarnews.net. We are the first to learn more about the world of espionage and social media. [New York, Kyodo] Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal who was released after being detained by Russian authorities for more than 16 months on suspicion of espionage, criticized Russia on the 23rd, stating that the detention of the Hokkaido Shimbun reporter was "clearly Russia's hostage diplomacy." Cedarnews الإخ…

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The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zacharova, advised Japanese commentators to study the history of their country before denying the possibility of combining journalism with intelligence activities. Zaharova stated that the outrage of the detention of a Japanese correspondent should be addressed to the Japanese authorities and their Western curators. "The final legal assessment of the case is to be given to the court. Japan…

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This website is from Cedarnews.net. We are the first to learn more about the world of espionage and social media. [New York, Kyodo] Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal who was released after being detained by Russian authorities for more than 16 months on suspicion of espionage, criticized Russia on the 23rd, stating that the detention of the Hokkaido Shimbun reporter was "clearly Russia's hostage diplomacy." Cedarnews الإخ…

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The official spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zaharova, reminded Tokyo of cases of Japanese journalists working with intelligence agencies in the face of a scandal surrounding the detention of a reporter of the newspaper Hokkaido Simbun in Sakhalin, who said that such episodes were described in Japanese sources, so that allegations of incompatibility between journalism and intelligence activities were unforgivable.

An American journalist who was detained by Russian authorities on suspicion of espionage and subsequently released spoke to the public, urging the Japanese government to send a message to the Hokkaido Shimbun journalist who was detained, stating that it is "doing everything possible to facilitate his return." Evan Gershkovich, a journalist for the Wall Street Journal, was detained in Russia in 2023 on suspicion of espionage, sentenced to 16 year…

The writer Masaru Sato urged Japanese journalists to give the real name of the journalist Sankei Shimbun, arrested in Russia on charges of espionage, wrote Sankei Shimbun.

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cedarnews.net broke the news on Saturday, October 24, 2026.
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