Russia’s security service arrested an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal on espionage charges, the first time a U. The service, which is the top domestic security agency and main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, alleged that Gershkovich “was acting on instructions from the American side to collect information about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex that constitutes a state secret. “He was preparing for the usual, albeit rather dangerous in current conditions, journalist work,” Kolezev wrote