The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has had its own correspondent in Moscow since 1956.
Her work has never been easy.
Until the fall of the Soviet Union, foreign reporters could not move around the country unhindered.
They were observed, bugged, summoned.
Sometimes they had to wait for their visa.
But even in the midst of the Cold War, the communists in the Kremlin didn't tell foreign journalists what to write.
The Putin regime, which has recently brought the Russian media into line, no longer shy away from it.
The package of laws against the spread of “fake news” passed last Friday only allows the truth to be spread from Moscow at the cost of draconian punishment.
Anyone who even names Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine faces up to fifteen years in prison.
Foreign press agencies, broadcasters and newspapers therefore asked their correspondents and reporters to leave Moscow for the time being.
The FAZ has also decided to do this.
Censorship is never a sign of strength
The Putin regime is abolishing the last remnants of press freedom in Russia with its censorship laws that violate the Russian constitution.
The only thing not threatened with punishment there is repeating propaganda.
The regime is underscoring its totalitarian character by blocking and shutting down critical domestic media, which are also no sources of information for the foreign press.
Censorship is never a sign of strength.
Rather, the measures reveal how great the fear of the truth is in the Kremlin.
But even Putin will not be able to suppress them.
Our correspondents will also continue to report on Russia to the best of their ability, from a place where they can speak and write freely without the threat of imprisonment.
It is still the case that there is nowhere they would rather do that than in Moscow.