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The quiet death of Novaya Gazeta: How a once-powerful newspaper refused to leave Russia — and slowly lost its voice
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What happenedThe quiet death of Novaya Gazeta: How a once-powerful newspaper refused to leave Russia — and slowly lost its voice.
The headline splitThe left frames it as "The Lights Go Out at Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s Bravest Newspaper". The center frames it as "The quiet death of Novaya Gazeta: How a once-powerful newspaper refused to leave Russia —...".
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Left / center-leftThe Lights Go Out at Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s Bravest Newspaper
New York Times World · Center-left · News report
CenterThe quiet death of Novaya Gazeta: How a once-powerful newspaper refused to leave Russia — and slowly lost its voice
Kyiv Independent · Center · News report
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The quiet death of Novaya Gazeta: How a once-powerful newspaper refused to leave Russia — and slowly lost its voice
Novaya Gazeta, once one of Russia’s most influential independent newspapers, shut down on Monday, bringing an end to an institution that had survived years of Kremlin pressure but had been...
The Lights Go Out at Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s Bravest Newspaper
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.
