This monument of journalism is editor-in-chief at the “Novaïa Gazeta”, where Anna Politkovskaya worked, murdered fifteen years ago. Its reward occurs in a context of increasing repression.
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On the side of the Philippine Maria resa, it is a monument of Russian journalism that the Nobel Committee chose to honor, Friday, October 8, by giving Dmitry Mouratov a Nobel Peace Prize as unexpected as symbolic.
Through him, it’s a newspaper, the Novaïa Gazeta, known for the quality of his work as much as for his martyrs, who is honored. In his first reaction, Mr. Mouratov, his indefatigable editor, immediately paid tribute to his journalists, and in the first place to those killed in the exercise of their work, of which the most famous, Anna Politkovskaïa, murdered there is Fifteen years almost day for day, October 7, 2006.
m. Mouratov also said to accept the price “on behalf of Russian journalists who are currently undergoing repressions.” “We will help those called” foreign agents “, those we oppress and those growing at exile,” he promised. These words echo those of the Nobel Committee, which made Maria Résa and Dmitry Mouratov “the representatives of all journalists who defend freedom of expression”.
The Russian power, with which Muratov and the Novaïa Gazeta have continued to maintain conflictual relations, could not do otherwise than congratulate the laureate: Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman. greeted his “talent” and his “courage”. Things are however made simpler for the Kremlin by the fact that the Novaïa Gazeta is almost the last Russian independent media not to have received the label – infamant and threatening – “foreign agent”.
Reports on Russian realities ignored
Dmitry Mouratov, 59, is first a journalist and a renowned editor. Ancient “Para”, he begins his career in the last years of the USSR, in a newspaper of his hometown, Samara. Past through the Komsomolskaya Pravda, he participated in 1993, with fifty other journalists, at the creation of the Novaïa Gazeta, triabdomadary which is quickly established as a reference.
In 1995, Mouratov became the editor. His voice deals as internally and outside the newspaper. In a media landscape where the room for maneuver will stop thinking, under the conjugated button strokes of the state and oligarchs, the Novaïa is singing. Today, 76% of the actions belong to the drafting, 14% to the businessman Alexandre Lebedev, entered the capital in 2006, and 10% to the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
The newspaper is renowned for its reports on Russian realities ignored by the other media, as recently the situation of psychiatric hospitals, as well as for its investigations. Its history is marked by a number of resounding investigations: on the 1999 attacks, attributed to Chechen independentists and allowed the rise of Vladimir Putin; on the management by the forces of the hostage catches of the Moscow Theater – during a representation of the North-Ost musical – in 2002 and Beslan in 2004; on the corruption of elites; on the mercenaries of Wagner and their abuses, in Syria in particular; on extrajudicial executions in Chechnya and the hunt for homosexuals that is conducted there, etc.
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