Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the closure of Novaya Gazeta a “normal process.” Reporters asked Peskov to comment on the newspaper’s closure, reminding him that Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov had said Novaya Gazeta had been killed. “Either way, the era of independent Russian media is coming to an end,” the questioner stated. All quotations in this article are from Vy Slushali. Peskov replied that “it would be wrong to say that the era of independent Russian media is coming to an end.”