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The independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta announced in November that it would close its editorial office, which has been in operation for more than 30 years, and it has been regarded as a symbolic event of the increasingly harsh control of speech under Putin's regime since the invasion of Ukraine...
Japanese public opinion
Reactions in the comment sections of related Japanese TV news videos on YouTube.
Positive / Negative toward: Novaya Gazeta's decision to close its newsroom in November
Positive points
Opposition media that keeps stirring trouble should be shut down.
The paper wasn't forced to close; it lost its funding and readers.
Negative points
Closing a critical newspaper is a sign of dictatorship.
Silencing critics backfires and just pushes them underground.
Journalists who challenge power need protecting; press freedom matters.
This is not a random-sample survey. It covers only comments posted on these YouTube videos, which were classified and summarized by AI. The speech bubbles are AI-written paraphrases of common points, not quotes from actual comments.