Russia declares Nobel-winning editor Dmitry Muratov to be a foreign agent

Dmitry Muratov was a co-laureate of the 2021 Nobel prize; he later put up his Nobel medal for auction, receiving $103.5 million (about €95 million) which he said would be used to aid refugee children from Ukraine.

Dmitry Muratov was chief editor of Novaya Gazeta, which was widely respected abroad for its investigative reporting and was frequently critical of the Kremlin (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

Russian authorities have declared newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, to be a foreign agent, continuing the country’s moves to suppress critics and independent reporting.

Russian law allows for individuals and organisations receiving funding from abroad to be declared foreign agents, a pejorative term that potentially undermines their credibility with the Russian public.