Vladimir Putin has transferred “momentary administration” of the Prime Print chain to Moscow’s metropolis authorities, finishing the Kremlin’s seizure of belongings owned by the Norwegian firm Amedia.
In April 2022, within the early aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Amedia introduced its departure from the Russian market and stated it might give full management over 4 of its printing presses to Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. (Muratov’s newspaper was certainly one of Amedia’s shoppers in Russia.) In September 2023, Russia’s federal authorities all of a sudden confiscated the printing home and transferred it to the Federal Company for State Property Administration.
A consultant for Novaya Gazeta instructed The Insider that the newspaper deliberate to promote the printing presses again to their founders at a reduction with fee in five-year installments. “However we are able to not be answerable for this excellent asset,” stated the newspaper’s consultant.