Today Novaya Gazeta was closed in Moscow - the last independent publication in Russia stopped operating due to pressure from the authorities.
Novaya Gazeta has been published since 1993. During this period, six of its employees and authors were killed: the journalists Igor Domenikov, Yuri Shchekochikin, Anna Politkovskaya and Anastasia Bevorova, the lawyer Stanislav Marklov and the human rights activist Natalya Astmirova.
In 2022, the court canceled the registration of the printed version of the newspaper, but the journalists continued to work in Russia for another four years.
Leaving the system, Dmitry Muratov, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, called not to forget the political prisoners in Russia and strive to create new humanitarian corridors in Ukraine - such as the operation in Olshki.
The Kremlin sarcastically called the closure of Novaya Gazeta "a normal rotational process".
"Year after year, part of the media ceases to exist, their place is taken by the new media. This is a normal rotation process," Paskov said.