Novaya Gazeta closes after 33 years of activity. The Economist "The decision to close was made on October 26 at a workers' meeting after increasing pressure from the Russian authorities. This is what the Economist reports. After Novaya Gazeta was included in the "foreign agents" registry, its financial accounts were in danger of being blocked, and the system was evacuated from the building in central Moscow, where it had been for almost 30 years. "We didn't die, we were killed, along with the constitution," Muratov said, recalling the constitutional ban on censorship. Novaya Gazeta was founded in 1993. During its existence, six journalists of the publication were killed, including Anna Politkovskaya. After the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the newspaper's license was revoked and its website was blocked. Most of the editorial staff moved to Latvia, where they began to publish Novaya Gazeta Europe. Muratov and about 30 employees remained in Moscow and continued to report on political repression, censorship and the consequences of the war on Russian society. not tv