Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta shuts under Kremlin pressure

Novaya Gazeta, the best-known independent news outlet still operating inside Russia, has announced that it is closing.

The day before, it became known that the editorial staff was being evicted from its office in Potapovsky Lane in central Moscow, where journalists had worked for 29 years. As a result, the Anna Politkovskaya museum, located in her former office, will also close. After the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian authorities blocked the outlet’s websites and stripped the newspaper of its registration, and in September 2026 designated Novaya a foreign agent.