They are trying to deport a Russian journalist from Poland who organized an exhibition about Donbass
In Poland, a scandal continues around the Russian journalist Leonid Sviridov, who has been working as a correspondent in Warsaw since 2003, who was deprived of accreditation by local authorities after organizing a photo exhibition about the war in Donbass.
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The scandal began in September 2014 after an exhibition of photographs of military commander Andrei Stenin, who died in the Donbass, organized with the assistance of Sviridov.
The photographs were presented during the OSCE Human Rights Summit in Warsaw.
Immediately after the exhibition, the Polish Foreign Ministry revoked Sviridov’s journalistic accreditation, and a few weeks later, state security authorities submitted a request to the migration service, trying to take away the journalist’s residence permit.
The AVB statements stated that the Russian citizen poses a threat to the national security of Poland (see scanned letter).
In September 2015, the head of the agency, Colonel Dariusz Luczak, said in an interview that Sviridov was participating in the information war on the side of Russia and was engaged in propaganda for the Kremlin. Thus, the real reasons for the attempts to expel the correspondent from Poland became clear.
The day before, a Warsaw court once again denied Sviridov and his lawyers the right to receive AVB documents, on the basis of which government authorities make decisions regarding the revocation of a residence permit.
Leonid Sviridov himself announced today that he intends to appeal the court’s decision and defend his rights before all possible Polish and European authorities.
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