British PhD student on research trip accused of 'spying' by Russia and given 10 days to leave the country

By Cahal Milmo. As methods of destabilising Russia go, researching “social identity among urban workers in 1917” in an obscure provincial archive would seem to be one of the less imminent threats to Vladimir Putin’s regime.
But a British PhD student has found herself the subject of bizarre claims of “spying” in the Russian media after she was questioned for a visa irregularity while researching working conditions and their links to the overthrow of the Tsars and given ten days to leave the country. More...