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FILE -Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty editor Alsu Kurmasheva sits in a glass cage in a courtroom in Kazan, Russia, on Oct. 23, 2023. A Russian court has ordered a detained Russian-American journalist to be held in jail for two more months pending her trial on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent. 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 on charges of not registering as a foreign agent while collecting information about the Russian military. (AP Photo/Vladislav Mikhnevskii, File)

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Pavel Butorin, director of the current time, TV and digital platform of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and his wife Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmacheva pose for a photo in Prague, Czech Republic on Wednesday Aug. 14, 2013. Kurmacheva, the editor with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Tatar-Bashkir service was detained on Oct 18, 2023 in Russia and is being held in a detention center, awaiting a trial that could sentence her to up to five years in prison. (Pavel Butorin via AP)

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Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty editor Alsu Kurmasheva sits in a glass cage in a courtroom in Kazan, Russia, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. A Russian court on Monday ordered a Russian-American journalist who was detained last week on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent to remain in custody until early December, her employer reported. (AP Photo/Vladislav Mikhnevskii)

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Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty editor Alsu Kurmasheva sits in a cage in a courtroom in Kazan, Russia, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Alsu Kurmasheva is an editor for Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty. She is the second U.S. journalist to be detained in Russia this year.(Artemii Shumatov/Kommersant Publishing House via AP)

Russia extends detention of a U.S. journalist detained for failing to register as a foreign agent

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