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A Russian court today stripped the newspaper 'Novaya Gazeta' of its media license, effectively prohibiting the publication from operating inside Russia. The.
Shutting down novaya gazeta and all other independent journalism in russia. putin, of, horse has put in place this new law that puts you in prison for 15 years if you even reported on or describe the war against ukraine. and while dmitry murátov has promised he will stay in russia, and he has nearly died for that, he s novaya gazeta reporters and editors who have fled russia, they have just recently opened up a new paper, a new entity, they call it novaya gazeta europe, because they can no longer be in russia while they publish it. they are publishing in exile. a dramatic statement from unnamed u.s. intelligence officials you can see the headline there from the post. uss russian intelligence orchestrated attack on nobel laureate. the u.s. government has assessed that russian intelligence was behind an attack early this month on a nobel prize winner and
Prominent russian editor who criticize the kremlin s war on ukraine. dimitri muratov, editor of the independent russian newspaper novaya gazeta was about to travel to train when an assailant mixed him attacked him with a mixture of red paint and acetone, leaving his eyes with a chemical burn. u.s. intelligence has concluded that the incident was the work of russian intelligence, according to his official he spoke on the condition of anonymity under rosette by the biden administration. the official did not give any detail about how the officials had come to make the assessment, citing the need to protect sources. the officials said in a statement, quote, the united states can confirm that russian intelligence orchestrated the april 7th attack on novaya gazeta s editor in chief, dmitry murátov, in which he was smashed with red paint containing acetone. so, they are making the official who is confirming that finding stay anonymous, under biden administration rules, which itself is tensio