vladimir putin is presenting this as just another working visit. .. i've reported from russia for two decades, the whole span of vladimir putin's presidency. there have been highs, like the world cup. but i've also charted the slow erosion of freedoms here — the crackdown on dissent. a year ago, the government put me on short—term visas. then i became the news as state television announced i had to leave. after tense negotiations, i had been allowed to enter russia, but only to pack. i was then told my visa wouldn't be renewed. supposedly what happened to a russian reporter in london — though that was two years ago. it's happening as the pressure on russian journalists who don't toe the kremlin line is intensifying. dozhd tv has just been added to a growing blacklist of media labelled "foreign agents" for getting funds from abroad.