In a Muzzled Russia, He Still Speaks His Mind NYT | Top Stories By: Valerie Hopkins 2 April 2026 at 17:44 While hundreds of other journalists fled into exile after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitri A. Muratov stayed. But he did not stay quiet. © Nanna Heitmann for The New York TimesDmitri A. Muratov at his office at Novaya Gazeta in Moscow in December.