Readers gather outside Novaya Gazeta’s Moscow office after independent Russian newspaper announces closure
Readers have begun gathering outside the building on Moscow’s Potapovsky Lane that houses Novaya Gazeta’s offices. The newspaper said today that it is closing.
One reader stood outside the newspaper’s offices for five hours holding Eduard Uspensky’s book “Novye poryadki v Prostokvashino” (“New Rules in Prostokvashino”). She said she chose the book because Uspensky’s work had appeared in Novaya Gazeta many times.
People are bringing flowers to the memorial plaque for Anna Politkovskaya, the Novaya Gazeta journalist who was murdered in 2006. A crew from a foreign television channel also arrived at the newspaper’s offices, a Sotavision correspondent said.
Novaya Gazeta said on October 30 that it was ceasing operations. The day before, news broke that the newspaper was being evicted from its offices on Potapovsky Lane in central Moscow, where its journalists had worked for 29 years.
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