Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta finally forced to close its doors

The Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta said on Friday that it was winding up its remaining operations after a campaign of state pressure in which a senior editor has been prosecuted and its financial support and ⁠premises have been taken away.

“We have been killed,” the publication, set up with money from the Nobel Peace Prize of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, said in a statement.

The paper halted its print edition inside Russia in 2022, but had continued to produce online content and operate from its office in central Moscow.

“On November 9, we will turn off the lights in the home where we have lived for 30 years, ⁠shut down our servers, and leave,” it said. “The newspaper no longer exists. ​The ⁠Russian authorities and the Russian security services have forced our editorial team to cease its operations.”

There was no immediate comment from the authorities, which had designated the publication a “foreign agent”.

But the ⁠Kremlin — which accuses foreign intelligence services of trying to stir up discontent inside Russian society — has said in the past ​that some ⁠censorship is necessary at a time when Russia is ‌locked in what it describes as an existential…

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