Russia refused to extend the visa for Spanish journalist Xavier Colas and ordered him to leave the country within 24 hours, the reporter's employer, the El Mundo newspaper, said on March 21. The newspaper quoted Colas, who has lived in Moscow for 12 years, as saying he had been officially warned of repercussions for covering rallies by Russian women demanding their husbands mobilized to the war in Ukraine return home. "We journalists go where we are allowed to be, but we will never allow anyone to tell us what to say and what not to say," Colas said. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Russian Service, click here.
Moscow Expels Spanish Journalist Over Coverage Of Protests Held By Wives Of Russian Military
Spanish journalist Xavier Colas had been covering rallies by Russian women demanding their husbands mobilized to the war in Ukraine return home.