France has ordered Russian journalist Xenia Fedorova to leave the country, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, amid accusations that she has spread Kremlin propaganda through French television and radio ahead of next year’s presidential election.
France has ordered controversial Russian journalist Xenia Fedorova to leave the country, the interior ministry said Wednesday, after accusations that she was churning out Kremlin propaganda on French television and radio.
Disinformation experts have raised the alarm about the influence of the former journalist for Russia’s state-run channel RT, as France heads for a presidential election next year.
French newspaper Liberation cited the expulsion order as accusing her of acting “as a conduit for disinformation campaigns orchestrated by the Russian authorities” with the aim of “destabilising public order” in France.
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She regularly appears on the CNews television channel, Europe 1 radio and writes a column for Le Journal du Dimanche, spreading Kremlin talking points about Ukraine and the West.
There is no clarification here as to what it means, exactly, to “destabilise public order”, or how “spreading talking points” is in any way illegal.
