Russian authorities have declared newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov to be a international agent, persevering with the nation’s strikes to suppress critics and unbiased reporting
ByThe Related Press
September 1, 2023, 3:05 PM
FILE – Nobel Peace Prize awarded journalist Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the influential Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta communicate to journalists stands at a courtroom previous to a session in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Russian authorities on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023, declared newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, to be a international agent, persevering with the nation’s strikes to suppress critics and unbiased reporting. (AP Picture/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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MOSCOW — Russian authorities on Friday declared newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, to be a international agent, persevering with the nation’s strikes to suppress critics and unbiased reporting.
Russian legislation permits for people and organizations receiving funding from overseas to be declared international brokers, a pejorative time period that probably undermines their credibility with the Russian public. The standing additionally requires designees to mark any publications with a disclaimer stating they’re international brokers.
Muratov was chief editor of Novaya Gazeta, which was broadly revered overseas for its investigative reporting and was continuously essential of the Kremlin. Muratov was a co-laureate of the 2021 Nobel prize; he later put up his Nobel medal for public sale, receiving $103.5 million which he mentioned can be used to help refugee youngsters from Ukraine.
After Russia enacted harsh legal guidelines to punish statements that criticized its army actions in Ukraine or had been discovered to discredit Russian troopers, Novaya Gazeta introduced it will droop publication till the battle ended.
A lot of its journalists began a brand new publication known as Novaya Gazeta Europe that’s primarily based in Latvia.
Russia lately has methodically focused folks and organizations essential of the Kremlin, branding many as “international brokers.” It has has branded some as “undesirable” beneath a 2015 legislation that makes membership in such organizations a felony offense.
It additionally has imprisoned distinguished opposition figures together with anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny, who’s President Vladimir Putin’s most persistent home foe, and dissidents Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya Yashin.