WASHINGTON - The plainclothes officers found the scholar in a state archive poring over texts on 19th-century provincial life in Russia. They requested a meeting in the hallway. At issue was the Western researcher's tourist visa. By studying historical documents in the archive, located in one of Russia's regions, the scholar had violated the terms of the visa, the officers from the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) said.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Western scholars alarmed by Russian deportations, fines
A man looks at a computer screen as he watches Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual press conference, in a public library in Moscow on Dec. 18.
