Bulgaria summons Russian envoy over Bellingcat journalist Grozev

FILE PHOTO: Bellingcat report author Christo Grozev gives a press conference opposite the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, October 9, 2018. Picture taken October 9, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's foreign ministry said it would summon on Thursday the Russian ambassador to Sofia "for explanations" after Moscow put Christo Grozev, a Bulgarian citizen and the executive director of investigative news outlet Bellingcat, on a wanted list.

Grozev, Bellingcat's chief investigator on Russia, is "wanted under an article of the Criminal Code," according to information published on Russia's interior ministry website earlier this week. It did not specify the exact article.