'They killed us': Novaya Gazeta, the Russian newspaper that saw six reporters murdered, will close under Kremlin pressure
Novaya Gazeta's masthead, whose editor-in-chief Sergei Sokolov said Russian security services had forced the team to close, with journalist Oleg Roldugin arrested in April and remaining under house arrest.
Novaya Gazeta's editor-in-chief Sergei Sokolov announced the closure in a YouTube video on Friday, saying Russian special services had "forced the editorial team to end its work." November 9 will mark the paper's final day, when staff clear out of the Moscow office and servers go dark, drawing a line under 33 years of publication.
Founded in 1993 with support from Mikhail Gorbachev, the paper built an international reputation through its investigations into corruption, police brutality, and the human rights abuses committed in Chechnya.
Its former editor Dmitry Muratov won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 — and was travelling to Paris for a commemoration of Anna Politkovskaya's murder when he learned the paper was being evicted.
The Anna Politkovskaya Museum inside the paper's offices will also close, with portraits of killed journalists removed from the walls.
