Guardian newspaper correspondent denied entry to Russia.

LONDON (Itar-Tass) - Russian border authorities have
denied an entry of the country's territory to Luke Harding, the Moscow
Correspondent for The Guardian newspaper, the publication said Monday
night.
According to international media reports, Harding said in a telephone interview that he was refused entry to Russia when he returned to Moscow from London last Saturday.
Though he had a journalist's visa valid until May 2011, Harding said,Russian passport control officials told him without explanation that he was not being allowed into the country and would be deported.
After being held for about an hour, he said, he was put on a plane back to London.
"We have been in contact with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,including through a call from the foreign secretary, to seek clarity on this decision," a spokesman for the foreign office said Monday night. "We are awaiting a reply."
In the meantime, officials at Russian security services have declined to comment on the situation.