The Lefortovskiy District Court of Moscow (the Russian Federation) has prolonged the arrest of a Ukrinform national news agency's journalist Roman Suschenko until June 30.
Suschenko's lawyer Mark Feygin has written this in Twitter, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, previously the Lefortovskiy District Court had prolonged the arrest of Suschenko until April 30.
The Federal Security Service of Russia suspects Suschenko of espionage and allegedly calls him a special officer of the Main Intelligence Department of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine.
The Defense Ministry Intelligence Department denies that Suschenko has been ever engaged in any military service.
Ukrinform calls the detention of its journalist Suschenko a provocation.
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