Novaya Gazeta, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office and Roskomnadzor, removed from the site a report by special correspondent Elena Kostyuchenko from Kherson.
The article described a «secret prison» where Russian servicemen held several dozen residents of Kherson and surrounding towns . They, according to Kherson residents, were looking for SBU officers, ATO veterans, activists, volunteers and leading telegram channels. -publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />Nikolaev. Elena Kostyuchenko's report, which Novaya Gazeta removed at the request of the RKN
On March 29, Novaya Gazeta, also after a letter from Roskomnadzor, removed Kostyuchenko's report from Nikolaev from the site. On March 5, after the introduction of criminal penalties for “false information” about the Russian army, the editors removed her report from the border of Poland and Ukraine, along with other materials about the war.
“Total of my four texts from the war published in «New», there was one left — from Odessa. Perhaps there is no war,” Elena Kostyuchenko tweeted.
On March 28, Novaya Gazeta stopped work until the end of the war in Ukraine after Roskomnadzor issued two warnings to the publication in a month. Two warnings a year are the basis for filing a lawsuit to revoke the media license.
After that, in addition to reporting from Nikolaev, Roskomnadzor also demanded that Novaya Gazeta remove the transcript of the podcast with journalist and documentary filmmaker Andrei Loshak about the consequences of the war and the news about the ex-governor of the Altai Territory, the appeal of the editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov and the journalistic association «Syndicate-100» against the war.