The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow fined Novaya Gazeta 350,000 rubles in the case of disseminating fake information (Part 9 of Article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported to Interfax in the press service of the court.
“The court imposed a fine because of the Kherson article. The editorial board plans to appeal it after receiving the decision,” comments Novaya Gazeta.Europe.
Novaya Gazeta, at the request of Roskomnadzor, removed this material a few days after publication. With the permission of the author Elena Kostyuchenko, Mediazona reprinted the Kherson report without censorship.
In July, Roskomnadzor demanded that Novaya Gazeta's license be invalidated for mentioning sources without labeling a «foreign agent.» At the end of March, the regulator issued a second similar warning to Novaya Gazeta. The first time it arrived on March 22.
After the second warning, Novaya Gazeta stopped publishing in paper format. A few days later, Roskomnadzor also demanded that journalist Elena Kostyuchenko's reports from Kherson and Nikolaev be removed from the site, as well as several other materials on the war. =»mz-publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ /> Nikolaev. Elena Kostyuchenko's report, which Novaya Gazeta removed at the request of the RKN
In July, the editorial board launched the Novaya rasskaz-gazeta (NO) magazine. Seven days later, his website was blocked at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office. The Novaya Gazeta journalists who left Russia also launched a publication in Riga called Novaya Gazeta.Europe. His website has been blocked in Russia since April 29.