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Didn t expect to be banned from entering russia again and i definitely didn t expect to be called hostile or as security threat to russia which is still not been explained to me this day and that is the fsb, the successful agency for the fsb, the successful agency for the kgb that says that as a journalist i am somehow a threat to russia and that was a real shock. now steve rosenberg is now essentially trying to cover all of russia and the region on his own. i wonder can the bbc barely cover russia effectively now? i wonder can the bbc barely cover russia effectively now?- russia effectively now? i think steve will russia effectively now? i think steve will obviously russia effectively now? i think steve will obviously do a - russia effectively now? i think steve will obviously do a veryl russia effectively now? i think- steve will obviously do a very good job in as much as he can but it is a vast country but so many stories and i think it s obvious that our coverage will be impact
Worked in other countries before, and i guess hopefully i will be reporting from another one soon. perhaps on russia s role more broadly in the world, but, yeah, i wish it were russia, but. that s not in my hands any more and. sarah rainsford, thank not in my hands any more and. sarah rainsford, thank you not in my hands any more and. sarah rainsford, thank you so not in my hands any more and. sarah rainsford, thank you so much, - not in my hands any more and. sarah rainsford, thank you so much, and all the best. rainsford, thank you so much, and all the best- all the best. thank you. finally, the bbc news all the best. thank you. finally, the bbc news website all the best. thank you. finally, the bbc news website showed l all the best. thank you. finally, the bbc news website showed a photograph this week attached to an article about covid boosterjabs for it the over 50s which prompted a couple of different reactions, first, this plaint made by an anonymous era, that photo b
Correspondence there, why do you think the russians expelled you? it s a good question and one that they haven t really given me a straight answer to a themselves. and suddenly they did single me out, and that happened more than a year ago when i started getting short term visas. they put me on three month visas. they put me on three month visas instead of a one year visa, and eventually got a two month visa which is a clear signal that they didn t like something about me or certainly they had plans for me that didn t involve me staying in russia for a long time, but i think it was when i tried to cross the border to return to reshma and they told me that i had been declared a security threat that it really hit home that for some reason i had been singled out. but i think this isn tjust an attack on the end on the bbc, obviously it s an attack on journalism and on free speech because it s happening in a context of a real clampdown on free speech in russia. so i think it has to be seeni
Julie edwards spoke for many when she wrote. now come on the 31st of august, sarah rainsford returned to the uk, seemingly for the last time from moscow where she had been reporting for the bbc for more than 20 years. on that evening s will attend, she looked back on what had led up to her departure. this is the moment i discovered i was being expelled from russia. according to a specific lock, i have been designated a threat to national security, and as such, i am not allowed into the country. at passport control, i was told the fsb security service had banned me for life. i recorded the conversation.