# Readers gather outside Novaya Gazeta’s Moscow office after closure announcement

https://mins.news/en/item/122788

- Meduza, 2026-10-30 16:17 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/30/readers-gather-outside-novaya-gazeta-s-moscow-office-after-independent-russian-newspaper-announces-closure

> Readers gathered outside Novaya Gazeta’s office on Moscow’s Potapovsky Lane after the newspaper announced it was ceasing operations. One reader stood there for five hours with a book by Eduard Uspensky, while people brought flowers to a memorial plaque for murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The paper’s journalists had worked at the office for 29 years.

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