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November 13, 2026	By Katrin Bennhold

Good morning, world. Novaya Gazeta was a newspaper of near-legendary status in Russia. It was the home of the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, whose books in the early 2000s offered a searing account of human rights abuses, wartime propaganda and corruption in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. In 2006, on Putin’s birthday, Politkovskaya was shot and killed in the elevator of her apartment building. Twenty years later, Russia is back at war and Novaya Gazeta has shut down.

On Monday, the paper held its last editorial meeting. One final issue will come out in the next few weeks. I spoke to my colleague Valerie Hopkins, who was there to witness the journalists packing up their offices.

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Novaya Gazeta’s editor-in-chief Sergey Sokolov in Moscow last week. Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times

Sadness, defiance and pride

Valerie, Novaya Gazeta, the last big independent Russian media organization, closed its newsroom this week. The paper and its journalists have been under intense pressure from President Vladimir Putin for decades. Why now?

The real miracle is that they lasted this long. We’ve watched the Russian government systematically dismantle any media organization that is critical of the Kremlin and critical of the war in Ukraine. This didn’t happen overnight.

First their website was blocked, so you needed a VPN to read them. Then they lost their media license. Then Putin signed a decree nationalizing their printing presses. Then this spring, authorities raided the newsroom and one of their journalists was detained and put on trial. The paper was added to the list of so-called foreign agents — this kind of Stalin-era term that comes with many limitations on what you’re allowed to do.

There was this idea that eventually they would give up, but they didn’t. What ultimately forced them to close was when their landlord refused to renew their lease after 20 years and their bank stopped processing the reader donations that were their only remaining source of revenue. They went to other banks saying, Will you help us? But everyone said no. And that’s a function of either direct pressure from the authorities, or the understanding that you’re going to have a problem if you keep working with the paper.

And so they made the decision that they couldn’t go on any longer.

Dmitry Muratov at Novaya Gazeta with colleagues. Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times

Explain why this paper was so important in Russia.

It was known, above all, for the bravery of its journalists. They were never silenced, despite years of intimidation, attacks, pressure, assassinations.

Six of its journalists have been killed. Shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the paper’s editor, Dmitri Muratov, was attacked on a train. The attack was so bad that he needed four operations to use his eyes again.

The other reason Novaya Gazeta was so important was that at a time when many antiwar Russians and antiwar journalists left Russia, they stayed. They remained on the ground, living in their readers’ reality. That meant a great deal.

You were in that newsroom during its last day on Monday. What was it like?

It certainly felt like the end of an era. You know, these are people who are full of tremendous love and respect for the craft of journalism. But during that final editorial meeting on Monday, there was also this discussion about the fact that despondency is a sin, as one of the paper’s columnists wrote. He’s an Orthodox priest who was stripped of his congregation for his antiwar stance. So the sadness of the moment was mixed with defiance and pride in having lasted this long.

One of the things I found very moving was the description in your article of Anna Politkovskaya’s office, which had become a kind of museum and is now gone.

Yes, it’s heartbreaking. They saved her office almost as it was when she was killed. They kept her tape recorder, some of her letters, her really old-school computer. Her reading glasses were still on her desk. And then on the wall they had some of her best stories and also an investigation that her colleagues did into her assassination. It was a place where young journalists would come to be inspired. But all of that is going in storage.

A memorial to Anna Politkovskaya outside the offices of Novaya Gazeta in Moscow. Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times

I want to come back to the fact that they lasted this long. How did they manage to do it?

They were strategic. They decided, OK, we’re here, we need to follow Russian law. That meant they didn’t write about anything happening on the front line in Ukraine because there are laws in place that make it illegal to cite any sources besides the Ministry of Defense. But they also made it very clear that they weren’t writing about the front lines because of censorship. For instance, they would use the word “war” on their front pages, instead of the state-approved “special military operation,” but deliberately blur it out.

Another thing that might have helped protect them somewhat was the moral weight of their co-founder sharing the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021. And the moral authority of their history: The paper was founded with money from the Nobel Peace Prize Mikhail Gorbachev won. Muratov was close to Gorbachev, and he also knows a lot of prominent decision makers, including in Putin’s government. But as this war goes on, as the screws are being tightened, that will only get you so far.

Is there any other independent news outlet left in Russia now?

There are some, mostly on Telegram, but none of them with this kind of authority and weight. You know, as recently as a few months ago, Novaya Gazeta’s journalists were going to occupied territory in Ukraine. They went to Oleshky, the Russian-controlled city where people were starving, and wrote about it. The type of stuff that Novaya Gazeta was doing, nobody else is doing.

And what will their journalists do now?

I don’t think they plan to emigrate. Maybe they will eventually try to start something new. I think they’re all still trying to figure it out.

Read Valerie’s story in full.

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Nvidia’s chief resigns after affairs

Jensen Huang, the co-founder and chief executive of Nvidia, resigned on Thursday, capping the swift, stunning fall of one of the most powerful figures in the A.I. boom. He had extramarital affairs with a woman who U.S. intelligence agencies concluded was spying for China, and with an executive who reported to him. (Huang has been summoned to testify before Congress.)

Colette Kress, Nvidia’s chief financial officer, will serve as interim chief executive while the search for a permanent chief executive is carried out. Nvidia shares dropped as much as 14 percent, extending a decline that has wiped out more than $1 trillion from its market capitalization in the last month.

Finding a successor to Huang is being compared to replacing Steve Jobs at Apple. Here’s a list of people Nvidia could consider as its next chief executive.

And here’s a visual guide to understanding the scandal:

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