Moscow has shuttered Novaya Gazeta – we told the truth and we paid the price | Elena Kostyuchenko

Russia’s best-known independent newspaper was my home for 17 years. It’s being shut down, but the spirit of its journalism will live on Novaya Gazeta – Russia’s most prominent independent newspaper – is being shut down . On 29 October, two things became known: Novaya was being evicted from its newsroom, and banks would stop processing readers’ donations to Novaya (its only legal income). Insiders spoke of the risk of Novaya being declared an extremist organisation – then any employee could be