Polish reporter told to leave Russia
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| Publication Date | 18 December 2015 |
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December 18, 2015
By RFE/RL's Russian Service
Polish Gazeta Wyborcza journalist Waclaw Radziwinowicz
Russia has expelled a Polish journalist days after Warsaw forced a Russian reporter out of the country.
Waclaw Radziwinowicz, the Moscow correspondent for Poland's leading Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper, told RFE/RL on December 18 that Russian authorities had annulled his accreditation and asked him to leave the country within three months.
The move comes days after Polish authorities forced a Russian reporter, Leonid Sviridov, to leave Poland.
On December 12, Sviridov, who writes for RIA Novosti, part of the pro-Kremlin Rossiya Segodnya news service, had to leave Poland after Polish authorities accused him of espionage and annulled his permanent residence permit. RIA Novosti is part of the pro-Kremlin Rossiya Segodnya news service.
The developments take place amid deep tensions between the West and Russia over Moscow's intervention in Ukraine.
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