The High Price of Independence: Facts from the History of Novaya Gazeta
In the editorial office of the oldest independent newspaper in Russia today searchesOne journalist has been detained. The criminal case is based on the alleged misuse of personal data and possible ties to "undesirable organizations." "NeMoskva" recalls facts from the history of Novaya Gazeta, one of the most prominent media outlets outside the control of the Russian government.
— The first issue of Novaya Gazeta was published in April 1993. It was founded by journalists who left Komsomolskaya Pravda. explained Chief Editor Dmitry Muratov In one interview: “Those who remained wanted to make a tabloid, but we didn’t want to make a tabloid.”
— Published from the very beginning wrote It reported on pressing social issues and corruption, publishing investigative reports. Because of this, the publication's journalists were constantly under attack: they were threatened not only by house searches. Over the years, six Novaya Gazeta journalists were murdered: Igor Domnikov, Yuri Shchekochikhin, Anna Politkovskaya, Anastasia Baburova, Natalya Estemirova, Svetlana Orlyuk.
— Other journalists were also attacked. In 2022, on the Moscow-Samara train attacked to the publication's editor-in-chief, Dmitry Muratov. In 2023, Chechnya — to the journalist Elena Milashina. The perpetrators of the attacks were never punished.
— In the founding and operation of the newspaper participated Two Nobel laureates. In 1993, the first and last president of the USSR helped buy computers for the editorial office. Mikhail Gorbachev. And in 2021 Dmitry Muratov divided Nobel Prize with Filipino journalist Maria Ressa.
— After the war began, Novaya Gazeta continued writing articles and publishing investigations, refusing to bend to Russian propaganda: calling the war in Ukraine "SVO" or ignoring information about crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine. In 2022, the newspaper deprived Licensed in Russia. Its websites were blocked. Currently, it exists in print as a weekly.
Former Novaya Gazeta journalists who left Russia after the Russian invasion of Ukraine created the Novaya Gazeta-Europe project in April 2022. In June 2023, the Prosecutor General's Office declared the project an "undesirable organization."
