Moscow court revokes Novaya Gazeta’s licence to publish inside Russia
by Pjotr Sauer from World news | The Guardian on (#638ZM)
Ruling by Russia's media regulator comes less than year after its editor won Nobel peace prize
A court in Moscow has stripped Novaya Gazeta of its print media licence, effectively banning the newspaper from operating inside Russia, less than a year after its editor-in-chief, Dmitry Muratov, won the 2021 Nobel peace prize.
Russia's media regulator, Roskomnadzor, had accused the publication of failing to provide documents related to a change of ownership in 2006.
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