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A court in Russia on Monday ordered a detained Russian-American journalist to be held in jail for two more months pending investigation and trial, in a further step in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/personalities/vladimir-putin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Kremlin’s crackdown</a> on dissent and free speech.Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir service, was taken into custody on Oct. 18 and charged with failing to register as a foreign agent while collecting information about the Russian military. Later, she was also charged with spreading "false information" about the Russian military.A <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court in Tatarstan</a> on Monday ordered her to remain behind bars at least until June 5.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/second-american-journalist-detained-russia-this-year-evan-gershkovich" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SECOND AMERICAN JOURNALIST DETAINED IN RUSSIA THIS YEAR AFTER EVAN GERSHKOVICH</a>Kurmasheva, who holds U.S. and Russian citizenship and lives in Prague with her husband and two daughters, could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted, according to RFE/RL.She told reporters in the courtroom on Monday that she wasn't doing "very well physically" and that some of her <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">medical conditions</a> have flared up in detention. "Living conditions are very bad, I have no way of taking care of my health," she said, adding that medical assistance in the detention center was "minimal."Russian authorities have intensified a crackdown on Kremlin critics and independent journalists after President Vladimir Putin sent troops to Ukraine in February 2022, using legislation that effectively criminalized any public expression about the conflict that deviates from the Kremlin line.Kurmasheva was the second U.S. journalist detained in Russia last year, after Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-says-he-working-secure-release-evan-gershkovich-1-year-anniversary-detention-russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporter Evan Gershkovich</a> was arrested on espionage charges in March. Gershkovich and his employer have rejected the charges, and the U.S. authorities designated him wrongfully detained. He has spent a year in custody.Kurmasheva was initially stopped on June 2 at Kazan International Airport after traveling to Russia the previous month to visit her ailing elderly mother. Officials confiscated her U.S. and Russian passports and fined her for failing to register her U.S. passport. She was waiting for her passports to be returned when she was arrested on new charges in October. RFE/RL has called for her release.RFE/RL was told by Russian authorities in 2017 to register as a foreign agent, but it has challenged Moscow’s use of foreign agent laws in the European Court of Human Rights. The organization has been fined millions of dollars by Russia.

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title: Russian-American journalist to remain in custody for 2 more months following
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content: A court in Russia on Monday ordered a detained Russian-American journalist
 to be held in jail for two more months pending investigation and trial, in a further
 step in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/personalities/vladimir-putin"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Kremlin’s crackdown</a> on dissent and free speech.Alsu
 Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s
 Tatar-Bashkir service, was taken into custody on Oct. 18 and charged with failing
 to register as a foreign agent while collecting information about the Russian military.
 Later, she was also charged with spreading "false information" about the Russian
 military.A <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/russia"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">court in Tatarstan</a> on Monday ordered her to remain
 behind bars at least until June 5.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/second-american-journalist-detained-russia-this-year-evan-gershkovich"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">SECOND AMERICAN JOURNALIST DETAINED IN RUSSIA
 THIS YEAR AFTER EVAN GERSHKOVICH</a>Kurmasheva, who holds U.S. and
 Russian citizenship and lives in Prague with her husband and two daughters, could
 face up to 10 years in prison if convicted, according to RFE/RL.She told
 reporters in the courtroom on Monday that she wasn't doing "very well physically"
 and that some of her <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">medical
 conditions</a> have flared up in detention. "Living conditions are very bad, I have
 no way of taking care of my health," she said, adding that medical assistance in
 the detention center was "minimal."Russian authorities have intensified a
 crackdown on Kremlin critics and independent journalists after President Vladimir
 Putin sent troops to Ukraine in February 2022, using legislation that effectively
 criminalized any public expression about the conflict that deviates from the Kremlin
 line.Kurmasheva was the second U.S. journalist detained in Russia last year,
 after Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-says-he-working-secure-release-evan-gershkovich-1-year-anniversary-detention-russia"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporter Evan Gershkovich</a> was arrested on espionage
 charges in March. Gershkovich and his employer have rejected the charges, and the
 U.S. authorities designated him wrongfully detained. He has spent a year in custody.Kurmasheva
 was initially stopped on June 2 at Kazan International Airport after traveling to
 Russia the previous month to visit her ailing elderly mother. Officials confiscated
 her U.S. and Russian passports and fined her for failing to register her U.S. passport.
 She was waiting for her passports to be returned when she was arrested on new charges
 in October. RFE/RL has called for her release.RFE/RL was told by Russian
 authorities in 2017 to register as a foreign agent, but it has challenged Moscow’s
 use of foreign agent laws in the European Court of Human Rights. The organization
 has been fined millions of dollars by Russia.
summary: Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist, has been ordered to remain
 in custody for another two months pending her investigation and trial after being
 arrested on Oct. 18.
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