Court shuts down Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's last independent media

Novaya Gazeta newspaper's editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov and deputy editor-in-chief Sergei Sokolov sit in a corridor before a court hearing of a case to revoke the newspaper's media license in Moscow, Russia, September 5, 2022. REUTERS/Filipp Lebedev

Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's few remaining independent news outlets, was stripped of its media licence on Monday, and in effect banned from operating.

Russia's media watchdog Rozkomnadzor had accused it of failing to provide documents related to a change of ownership in 2006.