Novaya Gazeta closes its Moscow newsroom
The investigative newspaper says state pressure made reporting impossible. Its leadership has not said whether it will resume work outside Russia.
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The investigative newspaper says state pressure made reporting impossible. Its leadership has not said whether it will resume work outside Russia.
Novaya Gazeta closed its Moscow newsroom on 9 November, saying it could no longer report amid state pressure in Russia. The closure followed a September designation as a “foreign agent” and an order to leave the premises.
Russian authorities ordered the newspaper out and barred banks from processing donations from readers and supporters, DW said. The paper had relied heavily on those donations after moving entirely online shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine.
Editor-in-chief Sergei Sokolov said when announcing the closure in October that Russian authorities and special services had forced the editorial team to end its work. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the closure as part of a “rotational process” in a fiercely competitive media landscape.
At the closure, founding editor Dmitry Muratov, a joint recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, said people in Russia who advocate peace had been denied the right to read what they choose.
Founded in 1993, Novaya Gazeta investigated Russia’s criminal and political elites and covered the invasion of Ukraine critically. Six of its journalists were murdered, including Anna Politkovskaya, who investigated allegations of Russian military abuses in Chechnya and was killed in 2006.
The eviction notice arrived in late October and requires the team to leave the premises by 10 November. Novaya Gazeta’s leadership has not made clear whether the closure ends its reporting altogether or whether it will seek to operate from abroad.
Veselin Milić denied failing to report a murder and falsifying an official document on 9 November, after prosecutors dropped allegations that he helped remove evidence of the killing.
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