BBC reporter leaves Russia after credentials withdrawn in row with Britain

FILE PHOTO: Sarah Rainsford, Moscow's BBC bureau journalist, is seen on this undated photo. Courtesy of Sarah Rainsford/Handout via REUTERS

MOSCOW (Reuters) - BBC journalist Sarah Rainsford left Russia on Tuesday after Moscow abruptly refused to extend her permission to work in a tit-for-tat row with Britain over the treatment of foreign media.

Russian authorities earlier this month told Rainsford, one of the British broadcaster's two English-language Moscow correspondents, to leave the country https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/russia-asks-bbc-journalist-leave-diplomatic-row-with-britain-state-tv-2021-08-13 in retaliation for what it called London's discrimination against Russian journalists working in Britain.