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  • 2021-09-03 (xsd:date)
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  • which the BBC published on August 1 (en)
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  • BBC senior correspondent Sarah Rainsford left Moscow on August 31, after the Russian Foreign Ministry refused to renew her visa. The next day, the BBC said Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) had declared Rainsford a national security threat and barred her indefinitely.After the BBC first reported Russia’s rejection of Rainsford’s visa renewal request in mid-August, its director-general, Tim Davie, said: The expulsion of Sarah Rainsford is a direct assault on media freedom which we condemn unreservedly."Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said Rainsford’s ban was retaliation for the U.K.’s "visa prosecution" of Russian journalists in 2019 and for Britain’s "discriminatory approach" toward Russian media."I will emphasize once again: The Russian measure is exclusively retaliatory. It has nothing to do with any infringement of freedom of speech (en)
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