SocietyRussia’s Novaya Gazeta forced out of Moscow newsroom after 29 years
Russia’s independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta is being forced to leave its office on Potapovsky Lane in central Moscow, where it has been based for 29 years. Editor-in-chief Sergey Sokolov and journalist Irina Gordiyenko said the Anna Politkovskaya museum is closing and portraits of friends who were killed are being removed. Staff must leave by November 9 and have not found a new location.
Russia’s Novaya Gazeta forced out of Moscow newsroom after 29 years