Dmitry Muratov, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning former editor of Novaya Gazeta, told the BBC that Russia cannot claim victory in Ukraine, arguing the war has already made
victory
impossible regardless of how it ends. His newspaper's printing presses were nationalized and its registration revoked by Kremlin decree; it survives only online, and the site is blocked in Russia itself, accessible only via VPN.
Muratov said at least 1,500 people have been imprisoned in Russia for speaking against the war, three times the estimated number of Soviet-era dissidents jailed during the
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