Russia has barred entry to two French MPs and two journalists after RT propagandist Ksenia Fedorova was deported from France, Le Monde reports.
Members of parliament Sasha Holley and Arthur Delaport and journalists Ariane Chemin from Le Monde and Paul Gogo, who previously worked in Russia, were denied entry.
The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, claims that the French figures allegedly took part in the persecution of Fedorova and called for her to be deported from France.
Ksenia Fedorova previously headed the French branch of the Russian state television channel RT, whose broadcast is banned in the European Union in 2022. She also appeared regularly on CNews and Europe 1 and wrote a column for the weekly Le JDNews. In September, EU sanctions were imposed on it.