# Russia’s independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper says it will shut down

https://mins.news/en/item/122124

- The Guardian, 2026-10-30 09:05 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/30/novaya-gazeta-russia-independent-newspaper-to-close

> Novaya Gazeta says pressure from Russian authorities has forced it to close. Editor-in-chief Sergei Sokolov said authorities and security services had made the editorial team stop work. Officials recently searched his home and detained one of the paper’s journalists earlier this year.

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