The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange The Russian authorities revoked the visa of the Guardian correspondent, Luke Harding, who had worked for the cable from Moscow, and had called Wikileaks released by Russia of Vladimir Putin "was virtually a mafia." The British newspaper journalist, accredited in Russia since 2007, was stopped at passport control in Moscow airport as he returned after two months of work in London on the messages of the U.S.