The Polish foreign Ministry has denied accreditation " Russia today "
The government of Poland on the last working day of the week withdrew accreditation freelance journalist MIA " Russia today " in the capital of Poland Leonid Sviridov without explanation. About it reported in the published notice of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Poland, which was awarded to G. Sviridov on the last working day of the week.
According to the journalist, he was invited to the foreign Ministry of Poland, where the head of the press service Michal Safianik in the presence of another bureaucrat who is not called, handed him the document.
" We inform you that from October 24 to withdraw Your accreditation of foreign journalists accredited at the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Poland. Journalistic accreditation number 191 24 October 2014 loses its force. The foreign Ministry at the same time asked to return the accreditation card, " said the document signed by Satanika. According to Sviridov, Safianik words also did not explain the reasons for revocation of accreditation.
CEO MIA " today Russia " Dmitry Kiselyov said that Warsaw should, without delay, to explain the reasons for revocation of accreditation." We demand from the Polish foreign Ministry official explanations about the reasons for the deprivation of accreditation. As long as the actions of the Polish authorities can be interpreted only as an impediment to the work of the media, which contradicts the common European principles of freedom of speech and dissemination of information, " said Kiselyov.
Leonid Sviridov for the first time got a journalistic accreditation in the Polish Foreign Minister in 1998, and since 2003 lives and works in Poland on a permanent basis.
Revocation of accreditation of the journalist MIA " Russia today " is not the 1st case since the beginning of the Ukrainian fall, when the reporters are faced with obstruction of their work from the bureaucrats of the European Union and its member countries. In the beginning of the year Authorized the Russian media, and among them MIA " Russia today ", were not admitted to a briefing by the head of EU diplomacy Catherine Ashton in Kiev, despite requests submitted in advance. The Lithuanian foreign Ministry in April this year, also without explanation, withdrew the accreditation of the journalist MIA " Russia today " Irina Pavlova. The EU in the framework of the punishment relative to the Russian Federation in connection with the events in Ukraine included the chief editor of the Agency Dmitry Kiselev in the list of persons banned from entering their territory. The reporters several times under false pretenses was also denied entry to the site Ukraine.