Russia announced this Friday the expulsion of a Bulgarian journalist in retaliation for the expulsion of a Russian correspondent from Bulgaria on suspicion of “activities threatening national security,” which Moscow considered “persecution.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry said this Friday that it was “forced to take retaliatory measures against Angel Grigorov, the chief correspondent of the Bulgarian National Radio in Moscow,” after Alexander Gatsak, a correspondent for the Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta in Bulgaria, was ordered to leave the country. on Wednesday, which Moscow regards as “persecution by the Bulgarian authorities.”
“It was ordered [a Grigorov] pass the accreditation certificate and leave Russia,” the department added, also noting that the journalist can return if Gatsak is allowed to return to Bulgaria.
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