Russian Federal Security Service officers arrested a reporter from the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk bureau of the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun on suspicion of espionage in Sakhalin, the FSB's public relations center reported. The FSB said it collects and stores information about Russia's defense capabilities for transfer to Japan's intelligence service.

Russian Federal Security Service officers arrested a reporter from the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk bureau of the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun on suspicion of espionage in Sakhalin, the FSB's public relations center reported. The FSB said it collects and stores information about Russia's defense capabilities for transfer to Japan's intelligence service.