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The BBC correspondent in Moscow Sarah Rainsford, who asked Lukashenka a question about the legitimacy of his power, refused to extend the Russian visa, she will have to leave Russia by the end of August. About it informs Bloomberg.
The decision to deny the journalist a visa extension was explained by a retaliation against discrimination against Russian media in the UK.
Sarah Rainsford started working in Russia in the early 2000s. How notes Dozhd, she was one of the first foreign correspondents to come to Beslan to cover the September 2004 hostage-taking at School No. 1. After that she worked in Istanbul, Madrid and Havana.
In August 2021, Rainsford took part in the Big Conversation with the President in Minsk, where she asked Alexander Lukashenko about the repression of the opposition, sanctions against Belarus and whether the president has lost legitimacy due to the persecution of protesters.
As the agency clarifies, earlier Russia has already expelled journalists from the country. For example, Guardian journalist Luke Harding was expelled in 2011, American journalist David Sutter was banned in 2014, and Vaclav Radzivinovich, a Polish correspondent for Gazeta Wyborcza, was banned in 2015.
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