Novaya Gazeta ("New Newspaper"), Russia's leading independent newspaper, has managed to operate relatively free of control or influence by the Russian government of Vladimir Putin. However, it was forced to suspend print and digital publication on March 28, 2022 due to threats from the Putin regime. It said the suspension will continue "until the end of hostilities on the territory of Ukraine."
Based in Moscow, the paper is published in print three times a week in the Russian language and an English-language newsletter called Russia, Explained is produced once each week.
The newspaper was founded in 1993 by Editor-in-Chief Dmitry Muratov. Mikhail Gorbachev, a former president of the Soviet Union, helped fund the opening of Novaya Gazeta with some of the money from his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize. In October 2021, Muratov won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Maria Ressa, the founder of Rappler in the Philippines.
The newspaper has been subjected to repeated attacks and seven of its journalists have been murdered since 2000.
The website is presented in the Russian language.
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-- On March 28, 2022, the only independent newspaper in Russia suspended publication due to pressure from the Putin government. Editor-in-Chief Dmitry Muratov, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2021, said Novaya Gazeta had suspended both print and digital operations "until the end of hostilities on the territory of Ukraine."
Anton Troianovski and Ivan Nechepurenko wrote at The New York Times:
Novaya Gazeta, the hard-hitting Russian newspaper, suspends publication.
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, April 7, 2022
-- The founder of the independent newspaper in Moscow, Russia, Dmitry Muratov has been honored with the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, which he shares with Maria Ressa, the founder of Rappler in the Philippines. The prize announcement noted that Muratov "has for decades defended freedom of speech in Russia under increasingly challenging conditions."
Oksi Lantt and Buck Ryan wrote at Poynter on October 12, 2021:
Nobel Peace...
-- The names of 59 journalists killed in 2010, as well as 18 from previous years, will be added to the Newseum's Journalist Memorial, which honors newspeople who died or were killed in the pursuit of news.
Novaya Gazeta co-owner Alexander Lebedev and Krishna Bharat, founder and head of Google News, will speak at the dedication ceremony.
"Journalists are being targeted at unprecedented levels," said...
-- Russia's supreme court has ordered the retrial of three men charged in the Anna Politkovskaya murder case, the Guardian newspaper in London reported on June 25, 2009:
"Russia's supreme court has today overturned the acquittal of three men charged over the murder of journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya and ordered a retrial.
Politkovskaya, a journalist with the independent...
-- Novaya Gazeta is one of few independent voices in the Russian media, Luke Harding wrote in The Guardian newspaper on April 12, 2009:
"Soft censorship defines the media landscape, and editors know instinctively which boundaries not to cross (the most important rule: never criticise Putin). Novaya is the last major publication consistently critical of Kremlin power. It covers corruption, human rights...Also See...
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