The Telegraph reports on the expulsion of journalist David Satter by Russia:
“An American journalist has accused the Russian authorities of “dishonest and undignified” behaviour after being barred from the country in what he says is effectively the first expulsion of a US journalist from the country since the end of the Cold War.
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David Satter, a veteran Moscow correspondent who has been reporting from Russia since the 1970s, was denied a Russian visa in December for what the Russian Foreign Ministry is called “a gross violation” of immigration rules.
Mr Satter, 66, was hired last summer as an advisor by the Moscow bureau of Radio Free Europe, the US-Congress funded radio station and internet news.”
The case, which has seen the United States lodge” a formal diplomatic protest with the Russian Foreign Ministry, comes after two Dutch journalists documenting the run up to the Sochi Winter Olympics were similarly denied entry last summer.
Lila: Radio Free Europe is a propaganda arm of empire and thus likely engaged in some extra-curricular activities. Your tax-dollars at work, fomenting trouble so your kids can get drafted and blown-up, after being propagandized that it’s for the good of the world.