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Belarus strips Russian journalists of accreditation after COVID-19 reports

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Belarusian authorities stripped two Russian journalists of accreditation after their reports about coronavirus death rates in the country. The Foreign Ministry in Minsk did not specify why exactly journalist Aleksei Kruchinin and his cameraman Sergei Panasyuk, who work for Russia’s Channel One television company, were deprived of their accreditation.

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