Russia bans Moscow Times in crackdown on independent media
Also: Russia Bans The Moscow Times But the Newspaper’s Staff Won’t Back Down (Daily Beast)
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Source: Agence France-Presse
Russia bans Moscow Times in crackdown on independent media
Agence France-Presse in Moscow
Wed 10 Jul 2024 18.22 BST
First published on Wed 10 Jul 2024 17.50 BST
Russia has classed the Moscow Times as an “undesirable organisation”, outlawing its activities inside Russia and leaving anybody who cooperates with it open to prosecution.
The Kremlin has escalated a campaign against independent media and reporting since Russia launched a military offensive on Ukraine in February 2022.
“A decision has been taken to declare the activities of the Moscow Times, a foreign non-government organisation, undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation,” the office of Russia’s prosecutor general said.
The outlet was “aimed at discrediting the decisions of the leadership of the Russian Federation in both foreign and domestic policy”, it added.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/10/russia-outlaws-the-moscow-times-calling-it-undesirable
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Source: Daily Beast
Russia Bans The Moscow Times But the Newspaper’s Staff Won’t Back Down
“We refuse to be silenced,” the newspaper staff fired back, vowing to continue to do their jobs.
Christopher Gavin
Freelance Reporter
Updated Jul. 11, 2024 4:06AM EDT / Published Jul. 10, 2024 3:09PM EDT
Russian authorities on Wednesday slapped an “undesirable” label on The Moscow Times, an independent English language newspaper, essentially banning the outlet from continuing operations in the country, where the media is tightly controlled by the state.
Russians could now face criminal prosecution for working with or having ties to the outlet, the Times reported.
But staff at the newspaper appeared undeterred, with Times founder Derk Sauer writing in a post on X: “Of course, we will continue with our work as usual: independent journalism. That’s a crime in Putin’s Russia.”
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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-bans-the-moscow-times-declares-newspaper-undesirable