Nobel-winning Russian journalist to challenge 'foreign agent' designation

FILE PHOTO: Dmitry Muratov, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and editor-in-chief of the investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta, attends an interview with Reuters in Moscow, Russia September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File Photo

(Reuters) - Nobel Prize-winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov will mount a legal challenge to try to overturn his designation as a "foreign agent" by the authorities in Russia, Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper he edits, said on Monday.

Russia's justice ministry on Friday added Muratov, a veteran editor and co-laureate of the 2021 Nobel peace prize, to the growing list of people it has formally labelled "foreign agents" - a designation used to stigmatise and complicate the life of people it deems to be working against Russian state interests.