# Russia’s Novaya Gazeta forced out of Moscow newsroom after 29 years

https://mins.news/en/item/121506

- Meduza, 2026-10-29 21:14 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/30/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

> 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.

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