U.S. journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, detained in Russia for six months for failing to register as a "foreign agent", has insisted she will walk free "as an innocent person." Kurmasheva, who works for RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service, is additionally charged with spreading misinformation about the Russian military. The charges are widely seen as reprisals for her journalistic work.

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