Novaya Gazeta announced the stoppage of work, according to a notice from the publication published on the morning of October 30. "On November 9, we will turn off the lights in our house where we have lived for 30 years, turn off the servers and leave. The newspaper is no more. The Russian authorities and the Russian intelligence services forced the system to stop working," the statement said. On October 29, it became known that the system was being evacuated from the building on Potpovsky Street in central Moscow, where it had worked for 29 years. Echo, citing sources close to Novaya Gazeta, wrote that journalists must vacate the office by November 9.