Russia decided this Wednesday not renewing the journalist visa of Spanish correspondent Xavier Colás after having spent more than a decade in the country. This is what he himself has made known in his X account in which he has detailed that this decision has been made “at the last minute.” The authorities have given him 24 hours to leave the territory.

“After 12 years reporting from Moscow, the Russian authorities have refused to renew my journalist visa at the last minute and I have only had 24 hours to leave the country, leaving too much behind,” the journalist began in the publication, ending with a “I do not regret anything”.

The journalist and author of ‘Putinistan, an amazing country in the hands of an amazing president’ He has assured in this same publication that the only thing he has done during this time in Russia has been “simply” his “work”: “I have told what is happening, I have spoken to the people who suffer because of it and I have explained who they are. those responsible for what happens.”

He has not hesitated to criticize the lack of transparency and freedom of expression that exists in Russian territory. In fact, he insists that “a correspondent has to be someone who writes without fear about the government as if the government were not watching him and that at the same time “At the same time, he writes carefully about ordinary people as if they could actually read him the next day. Never the other way around.”

Colás’ departure comes after this past end of the past, Vladimir Putin has been re-elected as president for the fifth time, in a day where some few dared to protest for what they consider was an electoral farce.