Russian media is developing in fierce competition, said Dmitry Peskov.
The president's press secretary answered the question of whether the closure of Novaya Gazeta* (known as a foreign agent) means that the era of independent media is ending.
It would be wrong to say that the era of independent Russian media is passing. The Russian media is multi-faceted, it is multimedia, it develops rapidly and exists and develops under conditions of quite fierce competition," he explained in the briefing.
Paskov called the closure of the publications a normal rotational process: according to him, from year to year some of the media stops working, and news takes their place.
Novaya Gazeta* (known as a foreign agent) announced the work stoppage on October 30: the editors said they would continue working until November 9, after which the journalists would take things out of the Moscow office, "turn off the servers and leave." The publication has been published since April 1993.