MoscowRussia’s last major independent newspaper closed its office Monday.
Critical reporting on the war now has no major home inside Russia.
Authorities declared it a foreign agent, seized its printing house, revoked its registration and shut its reader donation system.
Cofounder Dmitry Muratov said peace advocates “have been denied the right to read what they choose.”
Editor-in-chief Sergei Sokolov says the paper will return one day.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 90+ reports worldwide
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- frames Novaya Gazeta's closure as the loss of Russia's last outlet openly opposing the war, citing Muratov's claim that 'constitutional guarantees have ceased to function'
- The Times of Israel leans critical
- sets the closure in Politkovskaya's killing and six journalists' deaths, and quotes the paper's statement that 'defending human rights is now treated as a crime'
Sources: Al Jazeera Online, The Times of Israel