Led by Dmitry Mouratov, Nobel Peace Prize 2021, the media announced that it would resume its activities at the end of the “special military operation” in Ukraine.
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Another turning point, the last nail in the coffin of freedom of expression … The reactions on social networks at the announcement of the judgment, even presented as temporary, from Novaïa Gazeta had, Monday, March 28, a End of the world tone. Certainly, the mythical newspaper, that of Dmitry Mouratov, Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, and Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist murdered in 2006, ensures that he will resume his activities at the end of the “special military operation” Russian Ukraine, but in a devastated media landscape, his renunciation appears as an ultimate defeat.
Formally, it is not because of the events in Ukraine that Novaïa, as is called the triamentomadary, is forced to suspend your publications online and on paper. In a very sober statement, the newspaper revealed to have taken this measure after receiving a second warning of Roskomnadzor, the Russian remote storm, in less than a week, for breach of the law on “agents abroad” . In concrete terms, the publication did not mention that an NGO, cited in one of its articles, carried this infamant status. This is the same pretext that resulted in the end of the Memorial Association.
Novaïa Gazeta was in recent weeks of survivor. The trigger by Vladimir Putin of his “special operation” has reduced to nothing that remained in Russia of independent media. His latest representatives, like Moscow Radio Echo, were dissolved by justice or forced to sagorder. Hundreds of journalists left Russia.
Hostile environment
If this independent media offensive has begun several years ago, the danger has increased with the recent adoption of a new legislation, including the law that punishes up to fifteen years in prison the dissemination of “False news” on the action of the Russian army. This Act has, for the moment, was used in priority against journalists of regional publications, now active solely on social networks. Social networks that have themselves suffered a rule attack, in any case the foreign networks. They were blocked or suspended or even in the case of Facebook and Instagram, forbidden for “extremism”.
In this hostile environment, Novaïa Gazeta was trying to live. The newspaper was pleased with the formal legal requirements, by avoiding the use of the word “war”, prohibits, or by refraining from writing on the operations of the Russian army, but it still published reports on The current humanitarian disaster in Ukraine or life in the territories “released” by Russian troops.
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