American journalist kicked out of Russia

Satter, the author of three books on Russia and the former Soviet Union, had been working as an adviser to the U.S. broadcasters Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty since September,CNN reports. In December, after suicide bombers killed more than 30 people in the Russian city of Volgograd, Satter wrote for CNN.com that visitors to the upcoming Winter Olympics in the Black Sea city of Sochi "are walking into what effectively is a war zone." "As some of you may know, I've been expelled from Russia," he wrote on his Twitter page Monday. Satter told CNN he had gone to the Ukrainian capital Kiev to exchange his existing visa for a correspondent's visa when he was told his application had been rejected. He is now in London "until we figure out what to do next," he said. Satter is a former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times and a fellow at Johns Hopkins University and the Hudson Institute, a U.S.-based think tank. The British newspaper The Guardian called his expulsion the first time an American journalist has been kicked out of the country since the Cold War.