A reporter for Japan's Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia's Far East was arrested on suspicion of espionage, transferred to Moscow and placed in custody, the FSB said. "On the eve of his departure from our country, the foreign citizen was arrested in the Sakhalin region and then taken to Moscow. The Investigative Directorate of Russia's FSB initiated a criminal case against the Japanese citizen under Article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (espionage)," it said. "According to the decision of the Portovsky district court in Moscow, he was arrested. Additional investigative and operational operations are underway. ".

A reporter for Japan's Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia's Far East was arrested on suspicion of espionage, transferred to Moscow and placed in custody, the FSB said. "On the eve of his departure from our country, the foreign citizen was arrested in the Sakhalin region and then taken to Moscow. The Investigative Directorate of Russia's FSB initiated a criminal case against the Japanese citizen under Article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (espionage)," it said. "According to the decision of the Portovsky district court in Moscow, he was arrested. Additional investigative and operational operations are underway. ".