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Russia revokes independent Novaya Gazeta's last media licence

Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's few remaining independent news outlets, was stripped of its last media licence on Thursday.

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Trudy Rubin: After Gorbachev’s death, Putin wants the world to know he is the ‘anti-Gorbi’

In early 1990, when Mikhail Gorbachev’s efforts to liberalize Soviet life were in full flower, I was on a journalistic exchange with a Russian newspaper — Moscow News — at the apex of the glasnost (“openness”) campaign.

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Russia silences another publication: Novaya Gazeta's magazine

A day after banning one of Russia's last independent newspapers, Novaya Gazeta, a Moscow court on Tuesday revoked the licence of its sister magazine, founded only two months ago.

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Kremlin-critical newspaper Novaya Gazeta stripped of licence by Russian court

The government has censored the newspaper and its offshoots since the start of the war in Ukraine

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Court shuts down Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's last independent media

Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's few remaining independent news outlets, was stripped of its media licence on Monday, and in effect banned from operating.

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Gorbachev -- the greatest democrat Russia ever had

'We all need to have perestroika," Mikhail Gorbachev would often say. The Soviet Union's last leader lived by that credo. After becoming the general secretary of the Communist Party in 1985 and implementing his programme of restructuring and glasnost ("openness"), he even changed his job title, preferring to be called…

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Why Gorbachev’s legacy still threatens Putin

Little remains of the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader and one of the greatest reformers in Russian history.

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My dear friend Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who changed the world

He ended the Cold War and the nuclear arms race. Here the Evening Standard proprietor remembers a political titan, a loving husband and a big-hearted man

Evening Standard

Mikhail Gorbachev: a divisive figure loved abroad but loathed at home

Despite being celebrated across liberal democracies, the former Soviet leader was reviled and unpopular in Russia

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Russia finds former state TV journalist guilty of discrediting army in ‘absurd’ trial

Journalist says trial was ‘to intimidate all the people in Russia who oppose the war’

The Independent UK

Russia's media regulator asks for Novaya Gazeta's registration to be revoked

Russia's media regulator has filed a lawsuit to revoke the registration of the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper, according to documents published on a court website.

Reuters

Moment Ukrainians Pummel Russians Trying To Attack Kharkiv Region

These images reportedly show the moment Ukrainian troops pummel Russian soldiers while the latter tried to make progress in taking the Kharkiv region in north-eastern Ukraine.

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Ukrainian Artillery Takes Out Russian Troops In Kherson Region

These images purport to show Ukrainian troops taking out Russian soldiers in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine.

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Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (June 21)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Russia holds missile drills in Baltic Sea as tensions with NATO reach boiling point

Lithuania has blocked rail access to Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast, cutting off the NATO-state surrounded territory from vital goods like coal, metals and building materials

Evening Standard

Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov sells Nobel prize for £84m and donates to Ukraine refugees

Nobel Peace Prize winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov has auctioned off his gold medal for $103.5 million (£84 million) to raise money for refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.

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Russian Journalist’s Nobel Peace Prize Fetches Record $103.5 Mln at Auction to Aid Ukraine Children

Dmitry Muratov, the co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize and the editor of one of Russia's last major independent newspapers, auctioned off his Nobel medal for a record $103.5 million to aid children displaced by the war in Ukraine. All proceeds from the auction, which coincided with the World…

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Ukraine Says Attacks Escalating, as Russia-EU Tensions Surge

Russia's blockade of Ukrainian grain exports sparked fresh tensions with Europe as fears grow of a global food crisis, while Kyiv accused Moscow of stepping up attacks in the east of the country. In New York, Dmitry Muratov, the Russian editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, auctioned off his…

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Russian Nobel Peace laureate Muratov sells medal for $104 million to aid Ukraine children

The Russian co-winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize, journalist Dmitry Muratov, sold his prize medal for $103.5 million at an auction on Monday to raise money for displaced children affected by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Russian Nobel Prize winner auctions medal to aid Ukrainians

The Russian editor awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for championing freedom of speech is auctioning his medal to raise funds for Ukrainians who’ve been made into refugees by President Vladimir Putin’s war.

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Russian editor auctions Nobel medal to raise money for Ukraine refugees

Novaya Gazeta editor Dmitry Muratov will sell 23-carat gold medal in US on Monday, donating proceeds to charity

The Conversation

'Today is not my day': how Russia's journalists, writers and artists are turning silence into speech

“It is impossible to stop a speeding train by throwing oneself onto the tracks,” wrote Russian poet Dmitry Kuzmin back in March. He was commenting on Olga Gordienko, a young teacher who, before she was arrested, stood for several minutes on a Moscow street with a sign that read:

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Exclusive - Pioneering Russian journalist sells Nobel Peace medal for Ukraine

Russian journalist and Nobel Peace laureate Dmitry Muratov is auctioning his Nobel medal for Ukrainian refugees, distraught at the eradication of independent media in his country, where he says fewer and fewer people support Moscow's military campaign.

The Guardian - UK

UK under pressure over Alexander Lebedev sanctions after Canada move

Labour says the case for the British government to follow Ottawa’s lead is ‘extremely strong’

The Guardian - UK

For Vladimir Putin, the sinister cult of victory is all that is left

Today on Russia’s Victory Day, the Guardian and other European news organisations are publishing articles by the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta

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