Nobel peace prize: how Dmitry Muratov built Russia’s ‘bravest’ newspaper, Novaya Gazeta

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Nobel peace prize: how Dmitry Muratov built Russia’s ‘bravest’ newspaper, Novaya Gazeta

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 Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov. The Nobel Peace Prize 2021  [Image: Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach]
Journalist Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2021

Ilya Yablokov is a lecturer in journalism and digital media in the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield

In 1993, Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev used part of his Nobel peace prize money to help set up the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, buying the publ, Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov. The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 [Image: Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach], Editor-in-chief of Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov, was joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 [Image: Niklas Elmehed