A court in Moscow rejected the appeal by the editorial team of the shuttered radio station Echo Moskvy against a decision by authorities to block it from the airwaves and deny access to its website. Echo Moskvy, the country’s most famous independent radio station, was forcibly shut in March 2022 over its coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Ekho Moskvy the prosecutor general’s office had demanded that access to the station be restricted and ordered that its website be blocked for spreading what it called “deliberately false information” about Russia’s invasion. Its editor-in-chief, Alexander Venediktov, said on Telegram that the court rejected the appeal. Venediktov said in the post that the radio station planned to appeal.