Moscow: Russia has notified a BBC journalist who works in Moscow to leave the country at the end of this month in retaliation for what is called London discrimination against Russian journalists working in the UK, TV reports report on Thursday.
In an unusual step that indicates further setbacks in a bad relationship between London and Moscow, the TV channel Rossiya-24 said that Sarah Rainsford, one of the two English English English correspondents, will go home in what he called “deportation symbolic “.
His steps, the expulsion of de facto, followed the harsh action before the parliamentary election in September in Russian-language media at a house judged by the authorities to be supported by foreign interests that had slander.
Rossiya-24 said Russian authorities had decided to oppose Rainsford’s accreditation to work as a foreign journalist in Moscow outside the end of this month when the existing visa was expired.
This step responds to London’s refusal to renew or issue a visa to Russian journalists in the UK, he said.
The channel citing English treatment against Russian broadcasters supported by RT countries and online state news outlets Sputnik, said no one could be accredited in the UK to include international events.
The British government did not immediately respond to a comment request.
“Sarah Rainsford will go home.
According to our experts, the Correspondent of the BBC Bureau Moscow will not have an extended visa because of the British, in the media field, has crossed all our red lines,” Rossiya-24 said.
“The expulsion of Sarah Rainsford is our symmetrical response,” he said.
The BBC said it did not comment on the story.
Rainsford did not reply to a comment request.
Maria Zakharova, spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that BBC representatives were in the ministry in the past few days and that everything had been explained to them in detail.
Zakharova said Moscow had warned London many times that it would respond to what he called persecution regarding a visa against Russian journalists in the UK.
The British Embassy in Moscow rejected comments immediately.
Rainsford is part of a team that supplies English-language outlets Broadcast State British with content about Russia and the former Soviet Union.
The BBC also operates a large Russian language service in Moscow.
Rainsford, a Russian speaker, is an experienced BBC foreign correspondent who has also conducted a duty at Havana, Istanbul and Madrid.
Russia told BBC journalists to go home in a row with Britain – State TV
