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…