Novaya Gazeta, fiercely independent Russian news outlet, says it will shut down

The newspaper survived three decades, six murders, death threats, an acid attack on its co-founder, raids and interrogations by the security services, wartime censorship and the seizure of its printing press. Its journalists fought on, finding loopholes in Russia’s increasingly oppressive laws.

But on Friday morning, journalists at Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s leading independent news outlet, reported news that they had done all they could to prevent: “They killed us,” they said in a statement.

Novaya Gazeta, whose co-founder Dmitry Muratov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for defending press freedom in Russia, will shut down on Nov. 9 after publishing one last edition, the journalists said.…