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Al Jazeera Staff. (2026, October 30). Russia ‘forces’ closure of investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/30/russia-forces-closure-of-investigative-newspaper-novaya-gazeta?traffic_source=rss
Al Jazeera Staff. “Russia ‘forces’ closure of investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta.” Al Jazeera, 30 Oct. 2026, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/30/russia-forces-closure-of-investigative-newspaper-novaya-gazeta?traffic_source=rss.
Al Jazeera Staff. “Russia ‘forces’ closure of investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta.” Al Jazeera, October 30, 2026. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/30/russia-forces-closure-of-investigative-newspaper-novaya-gazeta?traffic_source=rss.
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The Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta announced it is closing down on November 9, citing relentless pressure from authorities who have classified it as a "foreign agent." This label has stifled dissent and intensified since Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine. Editor-in-chief Sergei Sokolov said in a video statement that the Russian special services forced the editorial team to end its work. The newspaper’s operations are being terminated due to legal pressures, including a recent search of Sokolov's home and the arrest of journalist Oleg Roldugin earlier this year on charges of unlawful computer access. With no funding or office available, Novaya Gazeta has been a bastion of independent journalism for over three decades but now faces an impossible situation under Russia’s near-Soviet censorship measures.
The Russian media has come under increased scrutiny from the state amid Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
The forced closure of Novaya Gazeta marks another escalation in Russia’s crackdown on press freedom, with few independent media outlets or journalists left in the country, as censorship levels and arrests of regime critics have skyrocketed since it launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
