Старший выпускающий редактор Sputnik Беларусь Вероника Антонова-Тризно и продюсер Sputnik Беларусь Павел Антонов.© Sputnik
Baku/10.06.22/Turan: Baku/10.06.22/Turan: The State Migration Service of Azerbaijan has canceled the temporary residence permit in the country for the editor-in-chief of the Sputnik-Azerbaijan agency, Veronika, a citizen of Belarus Antonova-Trizno and her husband, the producer of this media structure Pavel Antonov. They were also denied a work permit, as well as a residence permit in Azerbaijan.The decision on refusal is dated June 6 and published today.
According to Article 62 of the Law on Administrative Proceedings, the decision is considered to have reached the addressee 10 days after the publication in the media.
Recall that "Sputnik-Azerbaijan" is the Baku branch of the Russian federal unitary enterprise "International News Agency "Rossiya Segodnya," whose editor-in-chief is the well-known Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan.
The editorial policy of the agency has often been criticized by Baku for publications that contradict interests of Azerbaijan. Official and unofficial calls have been made to ban the Russian agency's activities in Azerbaijan. -21В06-
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