Russia government ordered the shut down the website of the magazine Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia’s last remaining independent news outlets, a week after its launch.
The outlet, with Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov as its editor-in-chief, had been accused of “discrediting the Russian armed forces.”
State media watchdog Roskomnadzor blocked the site on July 24 at the request of the Prosecutor-General’s Office.
Novaya Gazeta, in March 2022, said it will suspend operations until the end of the war in Ukraine after it received a second warning from the state censor for allegedly violating the country’s “foreign agent” law.
In July, the newspaper launched a magazine, Novaya Rasskaz-Gazeta.
The editor-in-chief of the news house, Dmitry Muratov, earlier this year donated his medal to help Ukrainian refugees.