
Editor-in-chief Sergei Sokolov announced the end of the newspaper's operations after more than 30 years
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Novaya Gazeta is one of the last independent editorial offices in Russia.
The editor-in-chief of the independent "Nova Gazeta", Sergei Sokolov, announced the end of its activities on Friday.
"We have been killed. On November 9, we will turn off the lights in the house we have lived in for 30 years, turn off our servers and leave," we read in an article on the newspaper's website.
"The newspaper no longer exists. The Russian authorities and the Russian security services forced our editorial office to cease operations. More than 30 years of our common relationship with the country and its citizens will come to an end, leaving us homeless, destitute and under constant threat of repression," it wrote.
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Shutting down the servers and ending the newspaper's operations on November 9
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