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BBC reporter leaves Russia after work visa withdrawn by Moscow in tit-for-tat row

BBC reporter Sarah Rainsford has left Russia after Moscow refused to extend her work visa.

The expulsion comes during a tit-for-tat row between Britain and Russia.

Moscow believes its journalists are being discriminated against in the UK.

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The BBC said the expulsion of Ms Rainsford was a “direct assault on media freedom”.

The Government has tried – without success – to have the ban lifted.

Ms Rainsford posted pictures on Twitter from a Moscow airport before she boarded a flight out of the country.

“I have to leave Russia,” she wrote.

 

 

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