Natalia Morar, reporter for the Moscow-based New Times, was denied reentry into Russia this week upon returning from a press trip to Israel. Reporters without Borders has said “that it was almost certainly the FSB security service that ordered her expulsion…”

Morar’s expulsion was issued under article 28 of the immigration law, which says a foreigner may be expelled to “preserve national defence, state security, public order or public health” or when “a foreign citizen is designated persona non grata in the Russian Federation.”

Reporters without Borders believes that Morar’s treatment was motivated by a story she wrote entitled “The Kremlin Slush Fund,” an expose on how the parliamentary elections were financed. The FSB has yet to comment on the situation.

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