Dmitry Muratov is a journalist, editor, and co-founder of the Russian pro-democracy newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Muratov has been a vocal critic of the authoritarian developments in Russia and of the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. He supported the protests in Belarus in 2020 and is a member of the opposition party Jabloko.
He shared the 2021 Nobel peace prize with Maria Ressa for their “efforts to promote freedom of expression, which is a prerequisite for democracy and lasting peace”.
