Russia bans Moscow Times in media clampdown
Russia bans Moscow Times
Russia has designated the Moscow Times as an 'undesirable' organization, prohibiting its operations within Russia and subjecting anyone cooperating with it to potential prosecution.
The Kremlin has started a movement against independent media and reporting since Russia launched a military offensive on Ukraine in February 2022.
“A decision has been taken to announce 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 trying to disgrace the decisions of the leadership of the Russian Federation in both foreign and domestic policy”, it added.
It is worth mentioning that, The Moscow Times, which publishes in English and Russian and has been reporting on the country since the early 1990s, relocated to Amsterdam in 2022.
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Being labelled "undesirable" compels organisations to cease operations in Russia. Russians who work for, fund, or collaborate with them risk prosecution, potentially facing up to five yearimprisonments for certain activities.
“We will continue with our work as usual, ‘independent journalism’. That’s a crime in Putin’s Russia,” the Moscow Times founder, Derk Sauer, said in a post on X.
Notably, Russians had before been penalised for reposting web links and articles published by so-called undesirable organisations, the independent Mediazona site reported.
The online outlet, which for years published an English-language paper in Moscow, is popular with Russian watchers abroad. The Moscow Times gained a reputation as a training ground for future stars of foreign correspondence.
US reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested last year on espionage charges rejected by him and his employer, worked in Moscow for the outlet at the start of his career.
Russia wields the "undesirable organization" label to silence media outlets and NGOs critical of the Kremlin and allegedly supporting opposition groups.
Critics have described the law as an oppressive tool used to nullify dissent.
(With inputs from agencies)