Amnesty International warned that Novaya Gazeta’s closure would deprive Russian readers of an independent investigative source, after staff held their final editorial meeting and prepared to leave the newspaper’s Moscow office.
France 24 reported that staff had held their final editorial meeting and were preparing to leave the central Moscow office. The newspaper cited state pressure as the reason it was ending its reporting. EconoTimes previously covered the newsroom's final editorial meeting.
Russia's Ministry of Justice added Novaya Gazeta to its foreign-agent register Sept. 4. Reuters reported that banks stopped processing donations after the designation. Amnesty International said landlords demanded that the newsroom leave and financial groups declined to serve the paper.
Editor-in-Chief Sergei Sokolov said in a statement posted on YouTube that online publication would end and the servers would shut down Monday, part of the previously announced server shutdown plan.
