CultureHow Novaya Gazeta journalists tried to buy a nuclear warhead in 1990s Russia

After Novaya Gazeta announced it was closing, RIMA and Kronika said they would make the newspaper’s complete archive available. The story revisits an early investigation, published when the paper was called Novaya Yezhednevnaya Gazeta, into Russia’s nuclear-arms black market. Co-author Kirill Belyaninov recounts how he, Dmitry Muratov, and columnist Vladimir Filin tried to buy the makings of a nuclear bomb from Moscow middlemen.

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