Russia revokes independent Novaya Gazeta's last media licence

FILE PHOTO: Novaya Gazeta newspaper's editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov and deputy editor-in-chief Sergei Sokolov sit in a corridor before a court hearing of a case to revoke the newspaper's media license in Moscow, Russia, September 5, 2022. REUTERS/Filipp Lebedev

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's few remaining independent news outlets, was stripped of its last media licence on Thursday.

Russia's Supreme Court in effect banned Novaya Gazeta's online version, days after a Moscow district court banned Novaya Gazeta's newspaper and its sister magazine "No" ("But"), founded less than three months ago.