SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: Court shuts down Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia’s last independent media. “Novaya Gazeta, a stalwart of Russia’s media scene since its foundation in 1993 with money from the Nobel Peace Prize of late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, had carved out a niche as Russia’s leading investigative news outlet, even as press freedoms were gradually rolled back.”
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