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The Russian Foreign Ministry has ordered the last correspondent working for Austria’s ORF public radio broadcaster in its Moscow bureau to leave at short notice, ORF reported on Wednesday. Another ORF correspondent was ordered to leave at the beginning of June. The Russian authorities justified the move on the grounds that Austria refused to extend the residence permit of the head of Russia’s state-run TASS news agency on June 24. He was ordered to leave Austria within two weeks. Withdrawing the accreditation of the ORF bureau head was a necessary reaction to Austria’s actions, the Russian For…

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