Russia Will Expel BBC Reporter Amid Simmering Tensions
- Moscow says move spurred by U.K. visa denials to its reporters
- State TV says journalist Sarah Rainsford must go by September
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Russia has given a British Broadcasting Co. journalist until the end of the month to depart for good, in what it said was retailiation for the U.K. refusing to issue visas to the country’s reporters.
The reporter, Sarah Rainsford, will have to leave when her visa expires on Aug. 31, a Foreign Ministry official said Friday.