Novaya Gazeta closes after 33 years under state pressure as staff take down portraits of six murdered colleagues and leave their Moscow office to cries of ‘Thank you!’
Meduza · 10 Nov 2026

Novaya Gazeta closes after 33 years under state pressure as staff take down portraits of six murdered colleagues and leave their Moscow office to cries of ‘Thank you!’

Novaya Gazeta has shut down. It was one of Russia’s best-known independent media outlets and had continued operating inside the country after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In late October, news emerged that its journalists were being evicted from their office on Potapovsky Lane in central Moscow, where they had worked for 29 years. The publication itself had been around for 33 years.


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