Thursday, September 15, the Russian Supreme Court revoked the publication license of the Novaya Gazeta website. A court decision which comes on top of a ban on publication of the paper version of the media, decreed on September 5.
According to Jeanne Cavelier, head of Eastern Europe and Central Asia at Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the Supreme Court’s verdict is a symbolic attack on all independent media. However, it does not mark the Kremlin’s victory over freedom of the press. If Novaya Gazeta suspended its publication at the start of the war in Ukraine, a European edition has since emerged in Riga, Latvia.
