Novaya Gazeta’s closure marks the final silencing of Russia’s last major independent news outlet, eliminating a crucial source of truth in an increasingly repressive state.
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For more than 30 years, the paper covered an increasingly repressive Russia. “The process of silencing us started many years ago,” one of its journalists said.
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