Russian authorities earlier this month told Rainsford, one of the British broadcaster's two English-language Moscow correspondents,in retaliation for what it called London's discrimination against Russian journalists working in Britain.
They said they had tried and failed to get Britain to remedy the situation before deciding to retaliate in kind. In a farewell report, the BBC aired footage of Rainsford first being denied entry to Russia on Aug. 10 and being told she was being denied a visa "for life." Her departure, a de facto expulsion, follows a crackdown before parliamentary elections in September on Russian-language media at home that the authorities judge to be backed by malign foreign interests intent on stoking unrest.
Goodbye lier
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