Satter seriously violates Russian law, stays in Russia illegally for several days - Foreign Ministry
MOSCOW. Jan 14 (Interfax) - Moscow says that the western mass media reports regarding the situation surrounding Svoboda radio station correspondent David Satter are biased and that the U.S. reporter has seriously violated Russian migration law.
"We would like to clarify the following due to the biased reports in a number of western mass media outlets regarding the refusal to issue a visa to U.S. journalist David Arnold Satter," the Russian Foreign Ministry Press and Information department said in a statement on Tuesday.
Satter entered Russia on November 21, 2013 and according to existing migration law was obliged to come immediately to the Federal Migration Service Department for Moscow and to receive a multi-entry visa to stay in Russia and the Moscow correspondents' office of the radio station had been informed of this, the document said.
"Despite this, Satter applied to the Federal Migration Service Department for Moscow only on November 26, 2013, where he was refused a Russian multi-entry visa due to a serious violation of Russian migration law," the statement said.
Thus, "the U.S. citizen actually was in Russia illegally on November 22 to November 26, 2013," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
