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“What you are doing is murder,” Muratov said after the decision was announced. “You are depriving hundreds of people of jobs, and readers—there were 27 million in March—of the right to information.”nationalinterest.orgRussia’s most famous independent newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, was founded in 1993 using seed money from the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to final Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

The second warning came a day after a Russian journalist asked a question on Mr. Muratov’s behalf in a group interview with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.nytimes.comBut in late March, Novaya Gazeta said it would suspend operation until after the Ukraine war was over, after it was twice warned by the Russian government that it had violated the new law.

Muratov led the funeral procession of Gorbachev in Russia on Saturday. Since the beginning of its war in Ukraine, Russia has launched a domestic crackdown on independent media.ipi.mediaNovaya Gazeta’s journalists have faced threats and violence for their work on numerous occasions, including for the paper’s coverage of Chechnya and corruption inside and outside Russia.