--- description: Find out why Dmitry Muratov is one of the 100 most influential people of 2022. title: Dmitry Muratov: The 100 Most Influential People of 2022 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86b7f614c43a4cb2/698a322b929fad99d4bf8a21/dmitry-muratov-time100-2022-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- May 23, 2022 # Dmitry Muratov by Bill Browder  In Russia, [independent journalism](https://time.com/6173543/world-press-freedom-index-2022/ "undefined") is a blood sport. Since [Dmitry Muratov](https://time.com/6126259/nobel-peace-prize-dmitry-muratov/ "undefined") founded independent newspaper [_Novaya Gazeta_ ](https://novayagazeta.ru/ "undefined")in 1993, six of his reporters have been assassinated for exposing the crimes of [Vladimir Putin’s regime](https://time.com/6144109/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-viktor-medvedchuk/ "undefined") and Russia’s oligarchy. In response to one piece in 2012, Muratov’s deputy was taken to a forest by the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, or Russia’s FBI. The official threatened to kill him and then pretend to investigate his death. But nothing has intimidated [Muratov](https://time.com/6105332/dmitry-muratov-nobel-peace-prize/ "undefined") and the _Novaya Gazeta_ team. Year in and year out, his newspaper has exposed billions of dollars of the Putin government’s corruption, extrajudicial killings, and rampant human-rights abuses. For this work, he was [awarded the Nobel Prize in 2021](https://time.com/6105344/nobel-peace-prize-press-freedom-maria-ressa-dmitry-muratov/ "undefined"). Months later, following [Putin’s invasion of Ukraine](https://time.com/6150874/world-order-russia-ukraine/ "undefined"), he pledged to donate the medal to benefit [refugees fleeing the crisis](https://time.com/6170334/ukrainian-refugees-biden-program/ "undefined"). Some heroes show moments of bravery; Dmitry Muratov has shown a lifetime of bravery. [_Browder_](https://time.com/6165963/putin-money-bill-browder/ "undefined") _is the CEO of Hermitage Capital Management and author of_ Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and ­Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2022/6177747/dmitry-muratov/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2022/6177747/dmitry-muratov/"},"headline":"Dmitry Muratov","datePublished":"2022-05-23T10:06:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:22:11.464Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2022/6177747/dmitry-muratov/","keywords":["TIME 100","franchise","TIME100 2022"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86b7f614c43a4cb2/698a322b929fad99d4bf8a21/dmitry-muratov-time100-2022-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86b7f614c43a4cb2/698a322b929fad99d4bf8a21/dmitry-muratov-time100-2022-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2022/6177747/dmitry-muratov/","name":"Dmitry Muratov"}}]}] ```