Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta, is all but the last man standing up to President Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on independent media in Russia.
He said the website editors had taken a hiatus to learn new standards so as “not to get blocked or end up in prison,” and noted that the editorial staff remained in Russia, so “the risks are, let’s say, higher than usual.”
One recent story profiled a Russian mother whose young son was sent to Ukraine alongside other conscripts. Another reported on the deaths of Russian soldiers.on civilian deaths in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, special correspondent Elena Kostyuchenko visited the morgue and found the bodies of two sisters, a 17-year-old and a 3-year-old, piled together in the refrigerator. The orderly explains he is their godfather and they were brought in on his shift. “Of course I recognized them,” he said.
After Marina Ovsyannikova, an employee at Russia’s flagship state-controlled Channel One, burst onto the set of the evening news on March 14 to, Novaya’s website posted a screenshot of her but blurred out the entire text of the poster she was carrying to abide by the censorship law. He reacts angrily to any suggestion the paper should close in the face of restrictions on principle. He likened it to someone asking him to go shoot himself, expressing disgust with those hurling invective at him while sitting safely abroad.
Some said they were bringing it to older readers who aren’t digitally savvy enough to receive news on Telegram or through virtual private networks that can access banned websites. Others said they simply trust the paper.
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