Your questions to Sarah Rainsford

One of the BBC's most experienced foreign correspondents, Sarah Rainsford, who first started reporting from Russia some 20 years ago has been expelled from the country. She is considered by the authorities to be a threat to national security. Sarah has returned to the UK this week and joins the programme to answer listeners' questions and to reflect on her years in Russia.

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(Photo: Undated photo of Sarah Rainsford, the BBC bureau journalist and correspondent in Moscow. Credit: Jonathan Ford / courtesy of Sarah Rainsford / Handout)