Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta to close
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Russia's independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta said on Friday that it is shutting down, blaming pressure from the authorities.
Editor-in-chief Sergei Sokolov said in a video statement that the Russian special services forced the editorial team to stop working.
The paper will turn off its lights on November 9, according to DW.
It has lost its media license and been stripped of its newsroom, donation platforms and the legal right to publish, the Guardian reported.
The announcement follows a search of a senior editor's home and the detention earlier this year of a journalist, Oleg Roldugin, who pleaded not guilty to unlawful access to computerized information.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov, the paper's former editor-in-chief, called the closure part of a giant military campaign by Russia.
“We are fierce opponents of war in all its forms. And we are a part that needed to be destroyed”
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