Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia’s leading independent newspapers, is suspending operations until the end of the war in Ukraine, the daily said Monday. The newspaper, whose editor Dmitry Muratov won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, said it had taken the decision after receiving multiple warnings of legal action from the government’s Roskomnadzor censorship agency.
This came a day after Russia’s communications watchdog asked the media to refrain from reporting a 90-minute Zoom interview of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy by four prominent journalists and said it had started a probe into the outlets which had interviewed the leader.
