Russia Accuses Former Military Reporter Of Supplying Arms Trade Data To Czech Republic
(World News Cezch Republic)

Russia has arrested a former journalist on a charge of high treason for allegedly passing military secrets to a NATO government in what some are calling a clear attack on press freedoms. Ivan Safronov Jr., who since May has been working as an adviser to the chief of Russia`s state space agency Roskosmos, was detained and searched by armed officers of the FSB security service outside his Moscow apartment on July 7 before being taken to court, where he entered a not guilty plea. The court ordered him held behind bars until September 6. Prosecutors accuse him of passing information to the Czech Republic in 2017 about the sale of Russian arms to the Middle East and Africa, his lawyer Ivan Pavlov...