Russia's FSB security service has opened a criminal case against a journalist working for CNN who it said had illegally crossed the Russian border to film a report inside the Kursk region, APA reports citing Reuters.
The journalist was Nick Paton Walsh, a British citizen. The FSB had also opened similar cases against two Ukrainian journalists.
FSB said Moscow would soon issue an international arrest warrant related to the cases. The maximum punishment for anyone found guilty of illegally crossing the border is five years in jail, it said.
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