A BBC journalist said on Saturday that Russia was expelling her and had told her she could never return in 'devastating' treatment showing the country she reported on for years was turning inwards.
In a BBC interview, Rainsford said she was shocked by the decision which she felt was part of a wider diplomatic game at a time when Russia's ties with the West were on the slide.
Rainsford, who is on a second stint in Moscow, said she had lived for almost one third of her life in Russia and had dedicated years to studying it. Rainsford said the Russia story had become increasingly difficult to tell in what she described as an oppressive environment.
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