We were killed." Novaya Gazeta closes Novaya Gazeta has announced that it is ceasing its activities. The editorial statement was issued on the morning of October 30, a day after it was announced that the editorial board would be removed from its office in central Moscow, where it had been located for 29 years. On November 9th we will turn off the lights in our home where we have lived for 30 years, turn off the servers and leave. There is no more newspaper. The Russian authorities and the Russian intelligence services forced the editorial system to stop working. In a statement from Nova Gazeta it was stated that at the same time as the eviction letter, the editors turned off the donation system. "In other words, they were deprived of funds. In general," the editors emphasized.
The publication recalled that in 2022, after the start of the Great War, Novaya Gazeta's media license was revoked, and in September 2026 it was declared a "foreign agent". We managed to work for almost 5 years of the war in a remote environment of special services. And now that's it. We found ourselves in the kill zone. This is not just our private story. This is the story of a country and a society ending it in exactly the same way. In Russia, the editorial statement reads, human rights and freedoms have been eliminated, and their protection has been compared to a crime, elections and elected bodies of power have been eliminated, public institutions have been eliminated, "freedom of conscience and human dignity have been trampled." Treason is when a country changes its constitution. The murder of Novaya Gazeta is further proof of this," the statement emphasizes.
All these years we wrote about exactly that. while we could. That's why they killed him. Thanks to everyone who heard us. The full text of the statement can be found on the Novaya Gazeta website.