"The next logical step is an official request to the Office for Foreigners to exclude me from the 'black list,' because the decision to ban me from entering Schengen area member states is a violation of Poland's 'Foreigners' Law.' It is said in the law that the data of the foreigner could be included in the 'black list' after the deportation procedure. There were no deportation in my case, because I have left the country on my own, implementing the administrative decision," Sviridov told RIA Novosti.
On October 24, 2014, Polish Foreign Ministry annulled Sviridov's accreditation. Soon after that, Polish authorities deprived him of residence permit and ordered the correspondent to leave the country. In mid-December, 2015, Sviridov left Warsaw for Moscow to begin legal proceedings against the Polish authorities.
Sviridov's case has been included in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring reports on freedom of the media, which documents violations of journalists' rights within OSCE member states.
