Of course, Judge Lipkina will not write this in the decision. She will justify (crookedly and obliquely – it simply won’t work any other way) someone’s desire to revoke the certificate of registration of a newspaper with a 30-year history. With two Nobel Peace Prize laureates among its founders – Mikhail Gorbachev and Dmitry Muratov.
Crimes have statutes of limitations. Even murders. Only war crimes and crimes against humanity do not have a statute of limitations.
And now – the failure to provide Roskomnadzor with a piece of paper at a time when the RKN did not yet exist in nature.
20 years have passed. Not to mention the fact that there is no violation itself – these clerks, who imagine themselves to be the sovereign’s guardsmen, have all the documents. This is what we proved in court. Only judges have also been wearing guardsmen for a long time and keeping brooms and dog heads in their safes.
Today they killed the newspaper. They stole 30 years of life from its employees. Readers were deprived of the right to receive information.
But not only that.
Today our colleagues, already killed by this state for fulfilling their professional duty, were killed again – Igor Domnikov, Yuri Shchekochikhin, Anna Politkovskaya, Stanislav Markelov, Anastasia Baburova, Natalya Estemirova, Orkhan Dzhemal.
But Novaya Gazeta does not need your papers. She was, is and will be. Even when there will be neither this power, nor these judges, nor these clerks. The free spirit blows where it wants and how it wants.
Attempted murder of Novaya Gazeta. Editorial statement – Novaya Gazeta
The Basmanny Court of Moscow ruled that Novaya Gazeta should be destroyed.
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