After hailing editor's Nobel Prize, Kremlin extends media crackdown
Several media outlets have been branded "foreign agents” under a Russian law that forces them to post the label on all news reports and meet strict financial disclosure rules.
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Several media outlets have been branded "foreign agents” under a Russian law that forces them to post the label on all news reports and meet strict financial disclosure rules.
By Leonid Bershidsky There’s plenty of symbolism to Russian editor Dmitry Muratov’s Nobel Peace Prize. The media outlet he edits, Novaya Gazeta, started, in a way, with another Nobel — Mikhail Gorbachev’s: He spent part of his 1990 Peace Prize to buy computers for the Novaya start-up in 1993. The award also comes almost exactly 15 years after Novaya journalist Anna
Blocked by post-Ukraine sanctions from storing their loot in the West, the Russian kleptocracy has turned its attention to coup-proofing the regime.
A huge leak of financial documents puts the spotlight on the hidden assets of the rich and powerful.
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