Novaya Gazeta is being evicted from its Moscow office. The Anna Politkovskaya Museum will be closed.

The editorial team of Novaya Gazeta must vacate its office on Potapovsky Lane in Moscow by 9 November, where journalists have worked for nearly 30 years. Mediazona reports, citing RBC and Echo.

“We are simply being thrown out, given the bare minimum of time to pack. The Anna Politkovskaya Museum is closing, the portraits of our friends who have been killed are being taken down from the walls,” the newsroom wrote in a letter to readers.

The museum dedicated to Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya was opened on 7 October 2021—on the 15th anniversary of her murder—inside her former office, Room 307. Politkovskaya was shot and killed on 7 October 2006 in the lift of her Moscow building. The museum preserved her desk, computer, glasses, letters and other personal belongings.

“We are facing a move into nowhere. We have become refugees in our own country,” the authors add.

A new location for the newsroom has not yet been found.

• In April, Novaya Gazeta’s Moscow office was searched. Law enforcement officers did not allow lawyers into the building. Later, it became known that the investigation was linked to a criminal case against investigative journalist Oleg Roldugin for alleged unlawful use of personal data.
• In September, the Ministry of Justice designated Novaya Gazeta as a “foreign agent.” After that, the publication was unable to restore its donation system: companies and banks have refused to cooperate with the newsroom, citing internal policies.