The Russian judiciary has now revoked the license for the website of “Novaya Gazeta”, the country’s best-known independent newspaper. The Russian Supreme Court has ordered “the cessation of the activities of the website ‘Novaya Gazeta’ as a Russian medium,” the newspaper told online networks on Thursday. An appeal will be lodged against you. Recently, Novaya Gazeta’s printing license was revoked.
The decision was made at the request of Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor, who had accused Novaya Gazeta of violating the law against “foreign agents”. “We have the right to appeal the decision, we will certainly exercise it,” the newspaper’s leadership said in its statement. Novaya Gazeta’s editor-in-chief, Dmitri Muratov, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year.
Editors left Russia
Novaya Gazeta had already stopped publishing print and online editions in March as part of its campaign against critics of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Due to new restrictions on coverage of the conflict in Ukraine, she announced that she would suspend her coverage until the end. Most of the newspaper’s journalists and editors left Russia.
A week and a half ago, a Moscow court revoked Novaya Gazeta’s printing license. The decision came shortly after the death of the last head of state of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, who helped found the Novaya Gazeta in the 1990s.
Independent Russian media has been under great pressure for years. Their situation has deteriorated again with the start of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Meanwhile, all of Russia’s major independent media outlets have shut down or suspended their domestic activities amid restrictions and threats of retaliation for reporting on the Russian military operation.
Source: Krone
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