Moscow: Nobel winner Muratov a 'foreign agent'

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 03, 2023 12:28 am

MOSCOW: Russia on Friday added respected journalist Dmitry Muratov, who shared the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize with Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, to its list of foreign agents, a label that authorities commonly use to stifle critics.

The move targeting the editor of Russia's top independent publication Novaya Gazeta is part of a wider crackdown on respected civil society institutions that has accelerated with Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

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