Russia on Monday granted consular access to a Japanese journalist arrested in Russia from the bureau of the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said. On October 13, a Japanese journalist from the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper bureau was arrested in the Sakhalin region. The newspaper reporter collected and stored information related to the defense capabilities of the Russian Federation for further transmission according to the instructions of the National Intelligence. Later, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Tokyo's attempts to use its correspondents located in Russia to gather information to undermine Russia's security are unfortunate. More IZ RU news in max.

Russia on Monday granted consular access to a Japanese journalist arrested in Russia from the bureau of the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said. On October 13, a Japanese journalist from the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper bureau was arrested in the Sakhalin region. The newspaper reporter collected and stored information related to the defense capabilities of the Russian Federation for further transmission according to the instructions of the National Intelligence. Later, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Tokyo's attempts to use its correspondents located in Russia to gather information to undermine Russia's security are unfortunate. More IZ RU news in max.