The Kremlin has killed Russia’s last free newspaper

Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s last free newspaper, has been killed by the Kremlin. Its staff agreed to close it down after it was branded a “foreign agent” and its financial channels blocked. The Economist’s Russia editor, Arkady Ostrovsky, sat down with the paper’s co-founder and winner of the 2021 Nobel peace prize, Dmitry Muratov.

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