France condemns Russian decision to revoke Le Monde journalist accreditation
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on February 6, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 26, 2026

Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on February 6, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 26, 2026

France condemns Russia's revocation of Le Monde journalist Benjamin Quénelle's accreditation, affecting the paper's Moscow presence.
PARIS (Reuters) - France condemns the Russian decision to revoke accreditation for a Le Monde journalist, a spokesman for the French foreign ministry said on Thursday.
Russia said earlier on Thursday it had withdrawn the accreditation for Le Monde's Moscow correspondent Benjamin Quénelle, in retaliation for Paris's refusal to issue a visa to a Russian reporter. This will leave the paper without a presence in Moscow for the first time since the 1950s.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Makini Brice)
The article discusses France's condemnation of Russia's decision to revoke the accreditation of a Le Monde journalist.
Russia revoked the accreditation in retaliation for France's refusal to issue a visa to a Russian reporter.
Le Monde will be without a presence in Moscow for the first time since the 1950s.
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