Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on February 7, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 26, 2026
Kremlin accuses France of discrimination after visa refusals for Russian journalists, impacting coverage of WWII commemorations.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday that France's refusal to grant visas to two journalists of Russian news outlet Izvestia amounted to discrimination.
State news agency RIA said the pair had been refused visas to visit France to report on commemorations this year of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two.
Russia said on Thursday it had refused to extend the accreditation of Le Monde's long-serving Moscow correspondent Benjamin Quénelle after France declined to grant a visa to a journalist from another Russian newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Anastasia Teterevleva; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
The main topic is France's refusal to grant visas to Russian journalists and the Kremlin's claim of discrimination.
The journalists were denied visas to report on WWII commemorations in France.
Russia retaliated by not extending the accreditation of Le Monde's Moscow correspondent.
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