Moscow court revokes Novaya Gazeta’s licence to publish inside Russia

A woman reads Novaya Gazeta's European version in Riga, Latvia. Since it was set up in 1993, the title has investigated corruption inside and outside Russia, as well as the wars in Chechnya. Photograph: Toms Kalniņš/EPA

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.