Russia’s Foreign Ministry says it has revoked the accreditation of the chief correspondent of Austria’s public broadcaster ORF and told her to leave the country in a response to Austria’s expulsion of the chief correspondent for Russian state news agency Tass.
MOSCOW — Russia ’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday it has revoked the accreditation of the chief correspondent of Austria ’s public broadcaster ORF and told her to leave the country in response to Austria ’s expulsion of the chief correspondent for Russia n state news agency Tass.
The ministry said Carola Schneider, the ORF’s Moscow bureau chief, was asked to hand over her media accreditation and leave Russia “in the nearest time.” It described the move as a “forced retaliatory measure linked to the continuing discrimination of Russian media representatives in Austria,” noting that it followed Austrian authorities earlier this week ordering Arina Davidyan, Tass bureau chief in Vienna, to leave the country.Schneider’s expulsion marks the latest move by Russian authorities against foreign journalists in the country.who has been in custody since his arrest in March 2023 on espionage charges that he, his employer and the U.S.
On Tuesday, Moscow responded to the European Union’s decision to suspend the broadcasting activities of Russia’s Voice of Europe, RIA Novosti, Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta by banning the broadcasts of 81 European media outlets, including ORF. “The Russian side has repeatedly warned that politically motivated repressions against Russian journalists and unfounded bans of the Russian media in the EU won’t go unanswered,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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