"They Killed Us": Novaya Gazeta Announces Its Closure
Novaya Gazeta's editorial board announced the publication's closure. Its last day of operation is November 9, and the day before, it was announced it would be evicted from the building where the newspaper had worked for nearly 30 years.
The closure of Novaya Gazeta: what the editorial board reported
The editorial board's official statement emphasized that "Russian authorities and Russian special services forced the editorial board to cease operations" and that "the newspaper no longer exists."
The last day of the publication's work is indicated as November 9.
"More than thirty years of life together with the country and its citizens will end for us on the streets, without a livelihood, under the constant threat of repression," the statement reads.
Eviction from the building and pressure from authorities
Yesterday it became known that the editorial office was being evicted from the building where it had worked for almost 30 years.
In September, the publication was recognized as a foreign agent.
According to The Economist, publisher Dmitry Muratov At a staff meeting, he announced that the newspaper could be declared an extremist organization and that criminal prosecution could be launched against its employees.
