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“It just caught my eye then. That decision was made by a commission from the Foreign Ministry, and I, as a Russian citizen, was ordered to leave Belarus before midnight on May 6. I have not received any official letter and ruling on this subject, but I did not intend to give it to you as far as I understood it, “said A. Kručininas, quoted by tut.by.
The Russian embassy in Belarus did not confirm the journalist’s deportation. “We have no information on the deportation of Kručinin,” said the spokesman.
The press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has yet to receive a comment.
A. Kručinin also reported that he had not received a stamp in his passport due to the prohibition on entering Belarus and that he could enter the country at any time. “It is not a request or a prohibition of return; No one deprived me of the right to enter Belarus, “he said.
Said television operator Sergei Panasiuk, a Belarusian citizen who worked with A. Kručinin, also lost his accreditation.
Previously, the Russian embassy confirmed that the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs had informed the embassy that the journalist’s accreditation had been withdrawn from the First Channel filming group. The ministry did not indicate the reason for the deprivation.
Belarus-1, which reported on the withdrawal of accreditation from the First Channel filming team, said the reason was a report on the situation in Belarus about a coronavirus containing “false information”.
“Today, in accordance with the law, the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has revoked the accreditation of the filming group First Channel and warned that it is ready for even stricter measures,” announced Belarus-1.
On Wednesday, the first channel showed a report by Stolpts reporting on the “sharp deterioration of the coronavirus situation” in Belarus. The report also said that “official statistics do not inspire confidence in the local population,” panoramic images of the local cemetery were shown.
By Wednesday, Belarus had reported 19,255 confirmed cases of coronavirus infection, including 112 deaths. President Alexander Lukashenko has repeatedly rejected concerns about the pandemic, calling it “massive psychosis” and declining to declare quarantine.
Belarus is among the few countries that have not closed their borders and businesses to continue holding important public events despite warnings from the World Health Organization (WHO).
A military parade will be held on Saturday in Minsk to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany.
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