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Blinken urges Russia for 'immediate release' of detained US journalist

  WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday required the "prompt delivery" of a US writer kept in Russia on under...

 

Blinken urges Russia for 'immediate release' of detained US journalist

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday required the "prompt delivery" of a US writer kept in Russia on undercover work accuses in a call of his Russian partner Sergei Lavrov, a representative said.

Blinken "passed the US's grave worry on over Russia's inadmissible confinement of a US resident writer. The Secretary required his prompt delivery," representative Vedant Patel said in a proclamation, adding that the top US negotiator likewise encouraged Moscow to deliver kept American Paul Whelan.

Evan Gershkovich of the Money Road Diary was kept by security specialists in Russia on Wednesday, the paper has detailed.

In the mean time, Lavrov — in his call with Blinken — has pummeled US authorities and Western media requesting that they avoid "publicity" over the capture.

Russia's unfamiliar service likewise said Lavrov let Blinken know that "a court will decide his future destiny", alluding to Gershkovich, who has been kept on surveillance charges.

"The American side started the call," the service said on Wire.

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