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It's probably surprising that Novaya Gazeta has only completely closed down now, given how much Russia has changed since February 2022. Over its 33-year history, the newspaper employed some of Russia’s best-known liberal journalists, including Anna Politkovskaya, Yuri Shchekochikhin, Elena Milashina and @YLatynina. It was initially financed partly through money from Mikhail Gorbachev’s Nobel Peace Prize (co-founder and long-time editor Dmitry Muratov would land the same award in 2021) and In 2006, businessman Alexander Lebedev (who later acquired Britain’s Evening Standard and Independent newspapers) bought a 39% stake, while Gorbachev took 10%. The editorial staff retained the remaining 51%. Lebedev reportedly invested millions of dollars in the struggling newspaper, helping it expand while pledging not to interfere with its editorial independence (a promise that Muratov said he upheld). Novaya Gazeta's relationship with Russian authorities was always difficult, but as recently as 2013 (then PM) Dmitry Medvedev sent it official congratulations on its 20th anniversary. Putin also congratulated Muratov on his Nobel Prize in October 2021. Several people associated with Novaya Gazeta were murdered, including Politkovskaya in 2006, and Moscow designated Muratov a “foreign agent” in 2023, after which he stood down as editor. Ironically, despite his support for independent media, Lebedev himself has been sanctioned by Canada and banned from the EU in recent years.