Russia announces it will expel BNR correspondent in Moscow - Angel Grigorov

The Russian Foreign Ministry has announced that it is revoking the accreditation and will expel the only Bulgarian journalist in Moscow - BNR correspondent Angel Grigorov. The decision is in response to Bulgaria's actions against Rossiyskaya Gazeta's Russian correspondent Alexander Gatsak.

""In response to the Bulgarian authorities' persecution and the summoning by the special services of Rossiyskaya Gazeta journalist in Sofia Alexander Gatsak and the subsequent withdrawal of his permanent accreditation, we are forced to take reciprocal measures with regard to BNR correspondent in Moscow, Angel Grigorov. He has been ordered to hand over his accreditation and leave Russia," the Russian Foreign Ministry's statement said on November 3.

According to BNR, Angel Grigorov has not been informed of the decision. On 1 November, he was summoned for a conversation at the foreign ministry in Moscow, hours after the information that Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper correspondent Alexander Gatsak had left Bulgaria following the SANS chairman's order.

SANS issued an expulsion order against a Russian journalist for intelligence activities in the country

SANS: Russian citizen Alexander Gatsak left Bulgaria today