Journalists of Novaya Gazeta claim that the Russian authorities organized the elimination of the publication. The New York Times. The newspaper survived three decades, six murders, death threats, an acid attack on its founder, searches and investigations by intelligence agencies, military censorship and the confiscation of its printing plant. Its journalists continued to fight, finding loopholes in Russia's increasingly repressive laws. Novaya Gazeta, whose co-founder Dmitry Muratov won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, will cease operations on November 9 after publishing its last issue, journalists said. In an interview, Muratov said that the government bears responsibility for this. "First they put an employee in prison, then they declared the newspaper a foreign agent, and then they added another 100 people to the list identified with the foreign agent," Muratov refers to the Russian authorities. "Then they searched the editor-in-chief's house, and we continued to work." "Then they kicked us out of the building and took our livelihood," he continued. "We don't have a house or money anymore. "It was the deliberate destruction of Novaya Gazeta as part of a society that advocated peace against oppression and hatred of dictatorship." As the journalists stated in their appeal, the publication loses the right to rent the space, which it has held for 29 years on Potapovsky Street in the center of Moscow. In addition, according to Muratov, the banks that helped Novaya Gazeta collect donations from readers - "our only source of income" - suddenly stopped doing so. They have stated that they have changed their rules, but Muratov will blame the FSB for this. "This is not just our personal story," the journalists said in their address. "This is the story of a country and a society that disappear in exactly the same way."

Journalists of Novaya Gazeta claim that the Russian authorities organized the elimination of the publication. The New York Times. The newspaper survived three decades, six murders, death threats, an acid attack on its founder, searches and investigations by intelligence agencies, military censorship and the confiscation of its printing plant. Its journalists continued to fight, finding loopholes in Russia's increasingly repressive laws. Novaya Gazeta, whose co-founder Dmitry Muratov won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, will cease operations on November 9 after publishing its last issue, journalists said. In an interview, Muratov said that the government bears responsibility for this. "First they put an employee in prison, then they declared the newspaper a foreign agent, and then they added another 100 people to the list identified with the foreign agent," Muratov refers to the Russian authorities. "Then they searched the editor-in-chief's house, and we continued to work." "Then they kicked us out of the building and took our livelihood," he continued. "We don't have a house or money anymore. "It was the deliberate destruction of Novaya Gazeta as part of a society that advocated peace against oppression and hatred of dictatorship." As the journalists stated in their appeal, the publication loses the right to rent the space, which it has held for 29 years on Potapovsky Street in the center of Moscow. In addition, according to Muratov, the banks that helped Novaya Gazeta collect donations from readers - "our only source of income" - suddenly stopped doing so. They have stated that they have changed their rules, but Muratov will blame the FSB for this. "This is not just our personal story," the journalists said in their address. "This is the story of a country and a society that disappear in exactly the same way."