The portraits of dead friends are coming off the walls. After 29 years, Russia’s independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper is being forced out of its Moscow newsroom.
Source: Ekho
Novaya Gazeta will be evicted from its office on Potapovsky Lane in central Moscow, where it has been based for 29 years, the news outlet Ekho reported. Ekho cited a letter to readers from editor-in-chief Sergey Sokolov and journalist Irina Gordiyenko.
“They’re simply throwing us out, giving us barely any time to pack up. The Anna Politkovskaya museum is closing, and portraits of our friends who were killed are being taken down from the walls,” Sokolov and Gordiyenko wrote.
Sources close to the newspaper told Ekho that staff members must leave the office by November 9. They have yet to find a new space.
Novaya Gazeta stopped publishing its print edition in 2022, after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s Basmanny Court revoked its media license that same year.
In September 2026, Novaya Gazeta was designated a “foreign agent.”
Anna Politkovskaya’s memorial
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