The Quiet Death of Novaya Gazeta: How a once powerful newspaper refused to leave Russia - and slowly lost its voice.
Novaya Gazeta, once one of Russia's most influential independent newspapers, closed on Monday, ending an institution that survived years of Kremlin pressure but was steadily stripped of its staff, reach and ability to publish.
With Novaya Gazeta's demise, another vestige of prewar Russia is gone, swallowed up by a growing totalitarian state that has spent years dismantling the institutions, freedoms and remnants of civil society that were once beyond the Kremlin's control.
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