Svobodnoye Prostranstvo - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Svobodnoye Prostranstvo, Novaya Gazeta project

Incident date: November 17, 2022

Attack type:

Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Roskomnadzor blocked the websites of Novaya Gazeta and its project Svobodnoye Prostranstvo. The grounds for the blocking are not specified. Both the print newspaper Novaya Gazeta and its website have been stripped of their media licenses. At the end of March 2022, Novaya Gazeta suspended its work.

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