Volgograd's first deputy mayor, Andrei O. Doronin, announced the closing of the newspaper, Gorodskiye Vesti, or City News, "in order not to inflame ethnic hostilities," according to the official Russian Information Agency. ....President Vladimir V. Putin said, "One has to think a hundred times before publishing something, doing something or drawing something." On Friday, the Prosecutor General's Office announced that it had opened a criminal case against the editor of a newspaper in Vologda, north of Moscow, which had reprinted the Danish cartoons on Wednesday.
Most of the criticism against the cartoon in Volgograd came not from Muslim or other religious leaders, but rather from the local branch of United Russia, the pro-Putin political party that dominates governments across the country.
Russian journalists denounced Friday's decision as censorship. "It is a downright disgrace," Igor Yakovenko of the Russian Union of Journalists told the Interfax news agency. "Russia is the only country that has reacted to the caricature scandal in such a manner."
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As you can see from that link this paper is alive and well.
I have no idea how could city authorities order to “close” a newspaper.
They just don’t have the power to do that, even in Russia.
These must be a court decision and Russian courts are under control from EU court.
I think one liberal from a city counsil told he don’t like a paper and other liberals reported city ordered to close it.
Browse this paper archives and you’ll find it worked well through 2006 as well.