Novaya Gazeta stops working and the headline of the news on the publication's website is "we were killed". "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. There is no more newspaper. The Russian authorities and the Russian special services forced the system to stop working," the journalists write. Yesterday it became public knowledge that Russia's oldest independent publication is evacuating its headquarters on Potpovsky Street; In addition to the system, the building will also leave the museum of Anna Politkovskaya, a Novaya journalist who was killed in 2006 on Vladimir Putin's birthday. This is not just our private story. This is the story of a country and a society ending it in exactly the same way. This was done by the FSB, the Ministry of Justice, the Prosecutor's Office and others who privatized the country and usurped power. This is not Soviet resentment; A military dictatorship was almost built under his guise. They say they are defending the constitutional order. No, it is an unconstitutional system. Because the constitution was raped, beaten and with her mouth taped, she was thrown into prison for a huge period of time. Like thousands of citizens in their country who simply followed her articles. Like tens of thousands of other citizens in the country who were forced to become refugees, leave their homes and go into the unknown. Stop saying that this is not Stalin's 1937, but that the repressions have a certain "digital nature". This is state oppression. And people, not numbers, die in cells. point. Well, doesn't Article 29 of the Constitution sound like a mockery today: "Censorship is prohibited"? The court was destroyed along with the law and the rights. This conviction is now treason. But treason is when a country changes its constitution. And this betrayal is an ongoing crime that is now happening before the eyes of the whole world. The murder of Novaya Gazeta is further proof of this. All these years we wrote about exactly that. while we could. That's why they killed him. Thanks to everyone who heard us. It is difficult to overestimate the contribution of Novaya Gazeta to the development of the Russian independent press.

Novaya Gazeta stops working and the headline of the news on the publication's website is "we were killed". "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. There is no more newspaper. The Russian authorities and the Russian special services forced the system to stop working," the journalists write. Yesterday it became public knowledge that Russia's oldest independent publication is evacuating its headquarters on Potpovsky Street; In addition to the system, the building will also leave the museum of Anna Politkovskaya, a Novaya journalist who was killed in 2006 on Vladimir Putin's birthday. This is not just our private story. This is the story of a country and a society ending it in exactly the same way. This was done by the FSB, the Ministry of Justice, the Prosecutor's Office and others who privatized the country and usurped power. This is not Soviet resentment; A military dictatorship was almost built under his guise. They say they are defending the constitutional order. No, it is an unconstitutional system. Because the constitution was raped, beaten and with her mouth taped, she was thrown into prison for a huge period of time. Like thousands of citizens in their country who simply followed her articles. Like tens of thousands of other citizens in the country who were forced to become refugees, leave their homes and go into the unknown. Stop saying that this is not Stalin's 1937, but that the repressions have a certain "digital nature". This is state oppression. And people, not numbers, die in cells. point. Well, doesn't Article 29 of the Constitution sound like a mockery today: "Censorship is prohibited"? The court was destroyed along with the law and the rights. This conviction is now treason. But treason is when a country changes its constitution. And this betrayal is an ongoing crime that is now happening before the eyes of the whole world. The murder of Novaya Gazeta is further proof of this. All these years we wrote about exactly that. while we could. That's why they killed him. Thanks to everyone who heard us. It is difficult to overestimate the contribution of Novaya Gazeta to the development of the Russian independent press.