Novaya Gazeta Europe

Novaya Gazeta Europe was founded in April 2022, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine six weeks earlier and the subsequent introduction of wartime censorship that forced most of Novaya Gazeta’s editors and journalists to leave the country.

Based in the Latvian capital Riga, Novaya Gazeta Europe seeks to continue the legacy of Novaya Gazeta, which has been one of the most trusted names in Russian independent journalism for over 30 years.

Founded in 1993 partly using money from Mikhail Gorbachev’s Nobel Peace Prize, Novaya Gazeta built a reputation for itself with its fearless investigative reporting during the chaotic and lawless decade that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. It further strengthened that reputation with its reporting on the early years of Vladimir Putin’s presid