INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), which represents journalists from 146 countries, has initiated the expulsion of Russia's
Union of Journalists from its ranks, Reuters reported on Tuesday.The IFJ announced its decision to expel the Russian union after journalist
among its members, despite the Russian Union of Journalists setting up new offices in the four partially occupied Ukrainian territories that
Moscow claims to have annexed during the war to date, the Finnish union said.The IFJ rejected the accusations, calling them "false,
defamatory and damaging," despite the head of the Russian Union of Journalists Vladimir Solovyov openly admitting to opening new offices in
annexed regions of Ukraine.Solovyov said that Ukrainian journalists "supported by the Scandinavians and the Baltic States" were behind the
