Can Russia’s independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta rise from the ashes a third time? Editor Sergey Sokolov discusses what comes next.
On the morning of October 30, Novaya Gazeta said it was closing. The day before, its journalists said the newspaper was being evicted from its office on Potapovsky Lane in central Moscow, where it had been based for 29 years. In recent years, Novaya Gazeta had somehow managed to keep working inside Russia despite searches, website blocks, the revocation of its newspaper registration, a show trial of investigative reporter Oleg Roldugin, and the newspaper itself being labeled a “foreign agent.”