MOSCOW: A Russian court on Monday stripped investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta — whose top editor shared the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize with Filipino journalist Maria Ressa — of its print license, in the latest blow to the Eastern European country's independent media.

The announcement came as another Moscow tribunal was expected to issue a verdict in the case of former defense reporter Ivan Safronov, who faces up to 24 years in jail on controversial treason charges.

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