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Russia Charges U.S. Citizen With Espionage

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Russias domestic intelligence agencyannounced Thursday it has launched an espionage case against a United States citizen.Russias Federal Security Service (FSB) alleged that the American national collected intelligence information of a biological nature aimed against Russias security.The FSB did not identify the man by name.It also did not specify when the United States citizen was detained or where he was being held.Charges of espionage carry a prison sentence of between 10-20 years.The unnamed man is the latest United States citizen to be jailed in Russia as the two countries' relations stand at their lowest point in decades due to Moscows invasion of Ukraine.A number of United States prisoners have been exchanged for Russians imprisoned in the United States in what Russian officials described as silent diplomacy on prisoner swaps.The United States Embassy in Moscow has not commented on the FSBs statement.




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