Atlanta CNN —A US-Russian dual national working for Radio Free Europe has been detained in Russia and charged with failing to register as a foreign agent, the US-funded news organization reported Wednesday. Alsu Kurmasheva is currently employed as a journalist and editor for the Tatar-Bashkir service of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and is based in Prague. According to her employer, Kurmasheva was detained on June 2 in the city of Kazan in Russia while waiting for a return flight to the Czech Republic. According to RFE/RL, Kurmasheva is an accomplished journalist who has been writing about the life of ethnic minorities in Russia’s Tatarstan and Bashkortostan regions for many years. He’s the first US journalist to be accused of spying by Moscow since 1986, when US reporter Nick Daniloff was detained on a similar charge.

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Persons: Alsu Kurmasheva, Kurmasheva, Jeffrey Gedmin, Vladimir Putin, ”, Evan Gershkovich, Nick Daniloff, Gershkovich Organizations: Atlanta CNN, Radio Free, Radio Liberty, RFE, ” CNN, US State Department, Wall Street Locations: Russian, Radio Free Europe, Russia, Prague, Kazan, Czech Republic, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Ukraine, Moscow