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3:24 p.m.: Good morning @ju. We just learned that Moscow’s Lefortovo court has detained American Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich for two months “on suspicion of having committed a crime,” the court said in a press release. “A preventive measure was chosen in the form of detention (…) until May 29, 2023,” she added. This is an unprecedented case in the country’s recent history.
3:13 p.m .: A US journalist arrested in Russia for espionage … More information?
3:06 p.m.: “We are moving towards protection based on prohibited activities and actions and not a territorial definition” to secure Ukraine’s Zaporijia nuclear power plant, said International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director Rafael Grossi. on France Inter. The IAEA wants Russia and Ukraine to agree to secure this facility.
3:08 p.m .: The recommendation of the International Olympic Committee to reintegrate Russian athletes into international competitions “in no way anticipates their presence at the 2024 Games in Paris,” said French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra. “If the international federations were to decide that there is this participation of individual athletes, it would be under a strict regime of neutrality, without a Russian banner or flag, without an anthem,” added the minister on the sidelines of a trip to Rosny-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint -Denis).
3:08 p.m .: The Ukrainian billionaire Konstiantin Jevago, who was arrested in Courchevel in December, will not be extradited to Ukraine, according to a decision that the Chambéry prosecutor has informed franceinfo. The businessman is prosecuted in his country for “large-scale embezzlement of property”, “money laundering” and “evasion of proceeds of crime”. At Kiev’s request, he has been on Interpol’s wanted list since last year. 
(JEFF PACHOUD / AFP)
1:20 p.m.: An arrest that caused French diplomacy to react. “We are particularly concerned and had the opportunity to condemn Russia’s repressive attitude,” whether in relation to the Russian or foreign press, Anne-Claire Legendre, spokeswoman for the French Foreign Ministry, said during a press conference.
1:23 p.m.: We told you about it a little earlier in this news feed. A Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested in Russia and accused of espionage by Moscow. In a statement, the daily again “vehemently refuted the FSB’s allegations and called for the immediate release of Evan Gershkovich, a reliable and conscientious journalist” after Moscow claimed to have arrested the reporter “with his hand in his pocket”.
11:58 a.m .: “What the employee of the American publication Wall Street Journal did in Yekaterinburg had nothing to do with journalism,” accuses the spokeswoman for Russian diplomacy Maria Zakharova on Telegram, who asserts that he was “with his hand in his pocket been caught”.
11:36 a.m.: The Wall Street Journal says it is “deeply concerned for the safety” of its journalist in Russia, Evan Gershkovich, whose Russian security services have announced the arrest on suspicion of espionage. The FSB accuses him of having collected “state secret information about the activities of one of the companies of the Russian military-industrial complex”.
11:32 am: Good morning @cyclo_ecolo. Finland will not join NATO immediately after the vote of Turkey’s parliamentarians, but only some administrative formalities remain, which are detailed on the alliance’s website.
11:32 am: Hello Louis. If #Turkey votes today for #Finland integration into NATO, will it happen immediately? Is there a final step?
10:17 a.m .: The UN Security Council is chaired by a different country every month, on a rotating basis. From April 1st, i.e. Saturday, Russia will take on this role. “A bad joke,” denounces this morning the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kouleba. “Russia has usurped its seat; it is waging a colonial war; its president is a war criminal wanted by the ICC for child kidnapping.”
10:18 a.m.: An American journalist from the Wall Street Journal, Evan Gershkovich, has been arrested in Russia, the Russian secret services say. The FSB accuses him of “espionage” and says he “slowed it out [son] illegal activity”. The International Press Institutea journalists’ rights organization says he disappeared yesterday in Yekaterinburg and is calling for his immediate release.
10:09 am: Turkey’s parliament announces that it will vote today on ratifying Finland’s accession to NATO. Turkey is the latest member country not to agree to the country joining the alliance. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given his consent since Helsinki decoupled his candidacy from Sweden’s.
10:08 am: Will Russia start a new mobilization campaign to strengthen its army? The British Ministry of Defence estimates at one point of the situation that Moscow is preparing to recruit 400,000 additional soldiers, an analysis based on Russian media. If Moscow presents it as a call for volunteers, “there is a realistic possibility that in reality this distinction has been blurred and regional authorities are trying to achieve recruitment goals by forcing men to recruit”.
7:17 a.m.: The day after his visit to the Russian army-held Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency will examine “realistic” measures to limit the risk of a nuclear accident and agree on certain principles, certain obligations, including, the plant does not to attack,” explained Rafael Grossi.
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