WARSAW, Poland (AP) – A Russian journalist suspected of spying in Poland said Wednesday that he is fighting an attempt by Polish authorities to deport him.
Leonid Sviridov, a journalist for Russian state news agency Rossiya Segodnya, demanded to know details of the allegations against him, which authorities have so far kept secret.
Sviridov was stripped of his right to work as a journalist in Poland last month by the Foreign Ministry less than two weeks after Poland detained a top Polish army official and a Polish-Russian lawyer on suspicion of spying for Moscow.
Sviridov said he believes the case against him is political and related to those developments. He also said Polish authorities have refused to tell him specifically what evidence they have against him.
He said he had no involvement with the two espionage suspects, both of whom are under arrest as authorities investigate them.