The Moscow Basmanny Court upheld the lawsuit filed by Roskomnadzor on July 26, voiding the license of the printed version of Novaya Gazeta. The Ministry requested that the registration of the media be canceled because the broadcasting regulation was not provided within the time limits determined by the law.
“The Court has satisfied Roskomnadzor’s administrative request to cancel the registration certificate received from CJSC Publishing House Novaya Gazeta,” the court told TASS.
The editor-in-chief of the publication, Dmitry Muratov, has already commented, calling the decision to revoke the license “political”. “[Решение суда] that does not make sense. This is a trivial, orderly, political decision. It has not the slightest legal basis,” he said (quoting Mediazone (the organization is on the list of foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice), the publication is considered a foreign media agent by the Ministry of Justice).
“Our position is clearly formulated. We submitted all the documents and years ago. We will object. We will go all the way, that’s for sure.” RBC.
Former press secretary of the newspaper Nadezhda Prusenkova Attention was paid the public said that the Roskomnadzor case was related to the re-registration of the publication in 2006. At the same time, the rule (within three months) on the mandatory provision of the charter appeared only in 2018. The Defendant also noted that a change in the constituent documents cannot be a reason for revocation of a license under the law.
How did they turn off the “new”?
Roskomnadzor gave the first warning to Novaya Gazeta on March 22, due to the absence of the NPO-foreign agent mark on one of the materials. The second warning was received less than a week later, on 28 March. The editors later announced that the publication of the publication on the website, social networks and on paper was suspended until the end of “Special operations on the territory of Ukraine.”
“We received a second warning from Roskomnadzor. What does that mean? This means that we are forced to suspend the publication of the newspaper and not to update our website and social networks until the conflict on Ukrainian soil is over. There is no other way out. This is a terrible and difficult decision for us and I know for you. But we must save us for each other, ”said Muratov’s letter to the readers.
In total, since the end of February 2022, the newspaper received six notices from the Prosecutor General’s Office and Roskomnadzor requesting the removal of materials containing “false socially important information”.
New projects
After the suspension of the newspaper, Novaya journalists launched two new projects – “New Newspaper. Europe” (chief editor – Kirill Martynov (known in the Russian Federation as a media agent)) and “New story-newspaper”. both one and the other locked At the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office in Russia.
The first issue of New Story-Gazeta was published on July 15. Access to Novaya.no was restricted as part of regulations to block sites containing calls for insurrection, extremism and participation in illegal mass actions. Until then, it had existed for 7 days and 9 hours.
6 September Basmanny Court evaluative Roskomnadzor’s claim to invalidate the registration of Novaya rasskazh-gazeta. In addition, on September 15, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will consider the issue of discontinuing the operation of the Novaya website.
Novaya Gazeta was founded in 1993 by former employees of Komsomolskaya Pravda, among them Dmitry Muratov. The publication was supported by former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev. The controlling stake belongs to the editorial team.
As of March 2022, the circulation of the newspaper is 108.1 thousand.
During the publication’s nearly 30-year run, six of its employees were killed. Muratov received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for his efforts to protect freedom of expression.
Source: Gazeta
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