NATO calls for immediate release of Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called for the immediate release of Evan Gershkovich on Monday, a Moscow-based correspondent for the Wall Street Journal who was arrested by Russia's FSB security service on suspicion of spying.

"His arrest is of great concern," Stoltenberg said to journalists during a news conference in Brussels, Belgium.

Russia's FSB security service previously said on Thursday that it had arrested Gershkovich, accusing him of gathering information about a Russian defence company that was a state secret. The Wall Street Journal has denied Gershkovich was spying.

Meanwhile, Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya spoke in New York City on Monday, and said the same attention hasn't been given to the Russian blogger known as Vladlen Tatarsky — whose real name is Maxim Yuryevich Fomin — after he was killed in a targeted explosion at a St. Petersburg café on Sunday.

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