Nobel Peace Prize to Muratov: let's not forget Russian journalists who are constantly threatened
8 October 2021
On the same day that Dmitry Muratov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize – and the Kremlin sent its Novaya Gazeta a congratulatory message - another handful of journalists were declared to be “foreign agents” by the Russian government: reporters from the BBC, Bellingcat, Dozhd TV and the Proekt website, already declared to be “undesirable organisations”. Never had a Nobel Prize been more timely, casting a powerful spotlight on a situation long ignored or underestimated by the international community.
