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For the first time in the history of modern Russian Federation the foreign journalist arrested on suspicion in espionage. The speech about the correspondent of the Moscow bureau of the American newspaper of American daily business newspaper "The Wall Street Journal", the citizen of United States of America Evan Gershkovich. He is arrested till May 29 and will contain in a pre-trial detention center of "Lefortovo". According to the investigators, the American collected information about activity the Ural defensive enterprises and was detected in the act. According to Art. 276 of the criminal code of Russian Federation to it threatens till 20 years of prison. Colleagues Evan Gershkovich insist that he was engaged in professional journalistic activity, and do not exclude that him arrested for the sake of an exchange...