Roman Imielski, managing editor for Gazeta Wyborcza, said on Twitter on Friday that correspondent Waclaw Radziwinowicz had been told to leave Russia.
Imielki said "this is a response to the expulsion from Poland" of Leonid Sviridov, a Russia reporter with the Kremlin-funded Rossiya Segodnya news service, who left Poland last Saturday.
Poland`s Internal Security Agency said Sviridov was a threat to Poland`s security, though it kept his case top secret and never revealed what evidence it had against him. Polish media said Sviridov was suspected of spying for Russia, something Sviridov denied.
The Intefax news agency quoted Radziwinowicz as saying that he was ordered to leave Russia within a month and was stripped of his Foreign Ministry accreditation, which makes it impossible for him to work in Russia.
Radziwinowicz said he had been summoned to the Russian foreign ministry earlier on Friday where his accreditation card was taken from him.
Polish journalist expelled from Russia in tit-for-tat move
18 December 2015
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Russia is expelling a Moscow correspondent for a leading Polish newspaper in a tit-for-tat move after a Russian reporter in Poland was stripped of his right to reside in Poland amid suspicions of espionage.
