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A Japanese journalist has been detained in Sakhalin Region on suspicion of espionage A criminal case has been opened against him under Article 276 of the Russian Criminal Code. The correspondent of the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun was detained in Sakhalin Region and then taken…

A Japanese journalist is accused of gathering information on the number of mobilized people on the Kuril Islands. He has been arrested for two months

A law enforcement source told Interfax that Moscow’s Lefortovo Court had arrested a Japanese journalist from the newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun for two months.

“At the investigator’s request, the court chose detention as the preventive measure for Yuki Imai,” the agency’s source noted.

The FSB claimed that he had been collecting information about the number of people mobilized on the Kuril Islands who are taking part in the war in Ukraine.

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