The case of journalist MIA " Russia today " will consider in Poland on November 26

The hearing for revocation of the right to stay in Poland Russian journalist MIA " Russia today " Leonid Sviridov will begin on November 26 at the Department for foreigners of the Masovian Voivodeship.

The Polish authorities on October 24, withdrew accreditation freelance journalist MIA " Russia today " in the capital of Poland Leonid Sviridov. Then it was announced about the intention of the Polish authorities to revoke his permission to stay in the country.

" The trial will begin on 26 November in the capital of Poland at d?uga street, 5 ", - said the press service of the Department for foreigners.

The first solution has the opportunity to be challenged. If the Polish Authorities will be left in force the decision on the revocation of residency rights, Sviridov will have 30 days to leave the country.

first Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Poland Rafal Trzaskowski said that Poland has reasonable grounds for expulsion from the country of journalist MIA " Russia today " Leonid Sviridov. In the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said that Moscow considers provocative actions of Warsaw, in the end, which was deprived of accreditation freelance journalist MIA " Russia today " in Poland, and reserves the right to respond.

Leonid Sviridov for the first time got a journalistic accreditation of the Polish foreign Minister in 1998, and since 2003 lives and works in Poland on a permanent basis.

first printed edition of " the Commonwealth " after the outbreak in October " spy " scandal said that Poland is able to expel not only the Russian diplomats, but also Russian Citizens living and working in Poland, and the Russian correspondents.

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 States, and Ukraine.

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, refused to extend 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 have included the Agency's Director General Dmitry Kiselev in the list of persons banned from entering the space member countries of the European Union. The reporters several times under false pretenses was also denied entry to the site Ukraine.


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