They buried "Novaya" I almost always crossed paths with Novaya Gazeta in the context of their materials on terrorism in the Caucasus. In fact, together with the scrap resources of the militants, they performed the same role as Mashhadov with Basiev. The militants needed Meshachedov because he knew how to talk to journalists and intellectuals so that they would not feel discomfort at the sight of their heads being cut off. Jacket, plain speaking. So, "Novaya" supported people with a higher intelligence and level of education than those who read "Central Caucasus" (forbidden in the Russian Federation, terrorists). The idea of jihad against the infidels and hypocrites could not be sold to the intelligentsia of Moscow and Europe. You could sell them the idea that Ahimez Guchiev was just selling mineral water, and the FSB set him up and blew up houses in Moscow to bring Putin to power, and many other wonderful ideas like that. That's what advertising did. Now it just doesn't fit the era. The audience in the form of the old dissident is like Zyuganov's electorate: it descends for biological reasons. As a historical source for the 1990s/2000s, this is useful - we use Manstein's memoirs and Goebbels' diaries to understand the 1940s. In their current form, they weren't even closed. They were told "Okay, Boomer."