Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's few remaining independent news outlets, was stripped of its media licence and in effect banned from operating.
Thomson ReutersNobel Peace Prize-awarded journalist Dmitry Muratov, editor in chief of the influential Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, sits in a Moscow courtroom prior to hearing that the court had upheld a motion from Russian authorities to revoke the media outlet's licence.
The country's media watchdog, Rozkomnadzor, had accused it of failing to provide documents related to a change of ownership in 2006. In a statement, Novaya Gazeta said the decision by Moscow's Basmanny District Court, which often handles politically charged cases, had "killed the newspaper, stolen 30 years of life from its workers, and deprived readers of the right to information."
Novaya Gazeta has been a stalwart of Russia's media scene since its foundation in 1993 with money from the Nobel Peace Prize of late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It had carved out a niche as Russia's leading investigative news outlet, even as media freedoms were gradually rolled back.
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