Against the background of the closure of Novaya Gazeta*, Paskov called the departure of the media "a normal rotational process".

Against the background of the closure of Novaya Gazeta*, Paskov called the departure of the media "a normal rotational process".

Against the background of the closure of the publication, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that some publications are closing and new ones are taking their place, calling it a "normal rotation process".

"It would be wrong to say that the era of independent Russian media is passing. You know that the Russian media is multi-faceted, it is multimedia, it develops rapidly and exists and develops under conditions of quite fierce competition. Of course, from year to year some of the media ceases to exist, their place is taken by the new media. This is a normal rotation process," he said.

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