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Journalist Alsu Kurmasheva has been detained in Russia and charged with failing to register as a foreign agent. The Prague-based editor at Radio Free Europe’s Tatar-Bashkir service faces up to five years in jail if she is found guilty by the Russian courts.
Alsu Kurmasheva, a 47-year-old Russian-American dual citizen living in the Czech Republic, travelled to Russia on May 20 for a family emergency. But when she tried to return to Prague not quite two weeks later on June 2, she was temporarily detained at Kazan airport before her flight. Both her passports, U.S. and Russian, were confiscated, and she was later fined 10,000 rubles for failing to register her American passport with the Russian authorities, according to Reuters, who cited Russian court documents.
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Author: Anna Fodor, Sources:Reuters, Moscow Times