Novaya Gazeta journalists left the office on Potpovsky Street; The Kremlin called the closure of the publication "a normal rotational process."
On November 9, the last planning meeting was held in the Novaya Gazeta system. Employees took things out of their offices, and emptied the advertising office on Potafovsky Street. On the last day of the editorial office, black-and-white portraits of the dead journalists and employees of Novaya Gazeta were removed from the walls, including photos of Anna Politkovskaya and Anastasia Baborova.
Dozens of people came to support Nova, including journalists from other media, writes RusNews. Those gathered at the entrance to the office welcomed the newspaper staff with applause. The advertising sign on the wall was covered with a sign that read: "Novaya Gazeta lives here." The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Sergey Sokolov, said goodbye to his colleagues and readers to the song "That's All" by the DDT group. "We will definitely come up with something. Because Novaya Gazeta is not a strip, not a website. It's an idea. An idea, the purpose of life for those who work here. And you can't kill. And you can't close it. We will live," he said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the closure of the newspaper. In his opinion, "it is wrong to say that the era of independent Russian media is passing." "Of course, every year some of the media ceases to exist, new media take their place. This is a normal rotation process," he said.
At the end of October, Novaya Gazeta announced that it would cease its activities after 30 years of activity due to pressure from the authorities and intelligence services in Russia.