Film crew of TV channel Lifenews tied in Chisinau airport due to lack of accreditation, correspondents are banned from entering the country, said the chief editor of the channel Anatoly Suleymanov.

"Our crew passed the customs surveillance at the airport of Chisinau, and after already on the tape (baggage claim), they were asked to bring things for inspection. They announced that They are denied entry into the Republic of Moldova because of that they do not have accreditation ", - told RIA "Novosti" Suleymanov. According to him, journalists issued a document on the prohibition of entry and stated that the passport they will receive on his return to the capital of Russia from envoy airlines. Now reporters are waiting for the return flight to the Russian Federation, which will be only in the evening. Editor-in-chief of the channel, said correspondent seized the stick, on which was written " a piece of a story ". He is, in the opinion of the commissioners of the Moldovan customs authorities, " threatens the security of Moldova ". Suleymanov added that customs authorities " learned about the fact that one of the correspondents were banned entry to Ukraine ", which in his vision, could become the basis of the ban on entry to Moldova. Editor-in-chief said that the correspondents and in truth had not been accredited in Moldova, as with a lot of Russian correspondents in the last period of time, problems, and added that " formally, they (the customs service of Moldova) right ".

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