The same newspaper reported that Security Service officers wearing masks came to the editorial office of the Novaya Gazeta newspaper in Moscow.
Security forces are searching the office.
“We don’t know why – the editor’s lawyer is not allowed to enter the office in Potapovsky, where some employees are also located,” the letter says.
Lawyer Kaloy Akhilgov I mentionedThat he came to the Novaya editorial office, but the masked men did not let him in because he was “too obnoxious.”
“What we were able to find out: the search is being conducted by the Investigative Committee of Moscow; most likely, we are talking about a criminal case related to publications,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
Novaya Gazeta suspended work at the end of March 2022. Some journalists went abroad and started publishing Novaya Gazeta Europe. The journalists who remained in Russia began publishing a paper magazine. In September 2022, the court, following a claim from Roskomnadzor, deprived Novaya Gazeta and the magazine that published it of their licence. The management claimed that the editorial board did not submit its charter to the authorities within the specified time frame. Moreover, this requirement appeared in law several years after the appearance of Novaya Gazeta itself.