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
keeping novaya gazeta alive. and i mean literally, alive, and repeated that word, because it is important to know how often the reporters who work at novaya gazeta have been murdered for their work. one of the most celebrated investigative journalists was a reporter for novaya gazeta, and much of what the world knows about putin s wars in chechnya we know about her incredible reporting about it. she published a book in 2004 called putin s russia basically sounding the alarm for the west about what kind of man putin was and what his plans were for his ability to use power in russia and to use the russian state team. anna politkovskaya was murdered two years after she published that book. in the midst of her ongoing investigative reporting, she was murdered. joe is one of six reporters for that one newspaper who were all murdered in russia before putin got to the end of his first decade in power.
acceptance speech from this past year and ian warded the nobel peace prize this year to a journalist from the philippines and to this man who see on the right side of your screen, who has been the editor for decades of a newspaper, novaya gazeta, an independent newspaper. and his life s work has been trying to keep the independent press in russia alive, by keeping novaya gazeta alive. and i mean literally, alive, and repeated that word, because it is important to know how often the reporters who work at novaya gazeta have been murdered for their work. one of the most celebrated investigative journalists was a reporter for novaya gazeta, and much of what the world knows about putin s wars in chechnya we know about her incredible reporting about it. she published a book in 2004 called putin s russia basically sounding the alarm for the west
about what kind of man putin was and what his plans were for his ability to use power in russia and to use the russian state team. anna politkovskaya was murdered two years after she published that book. in the midst of her ongoing investigative reporting, she was murdered. joe is one of six reporters for that one newspaper who were all murdered in russia before putin got to the end of his first decade in power. six different reporters from novaya gazeta all killed in less than ten years. but novaya gazeta kept going. and for the nobel peace prize, mr. dimitri muratov was recognized, its leader, for the increasingly impossible work of just keeping going, just continuing to do journalism over the threat of this mist asked the sizing violent putin government and mr. murtaugh of dedicated the nobel peace prize
this was him giving that speech, december 10th, 2021 in oslo. this was him three weeks ago, april 7th. he was on the train out of moscow. and they attacked him with red paint mixed with acetone. it chemically burned his eyes. he survived. but he was hurt. again, this is the current peace prize laureate. he has vowed to stay in russia, even as the russian government has finally succeeded in shutting down his paper, in 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