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Expelled: Russia, Repression And Me
The BBC's Sarah Rainsford reflects on being barred from Russia.
The BBC's Moscow correspondent, Sarah Rainsford, was recently expelled from Russia, a country she first began visiting in her teens as a student and has reported on since the start of Vladimir Putin's presidency. Now she's been barred for life, declared a 'security threat'. The move comes during an unprecedented assault on rights and freedoms in Russia, where critics of the Kremlin are increasingly being labelled as hostile 'agents' of the West.
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