About

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 presidency and on the Second Chechen War in particular.

Since Putin came to power in 2000, six Novaya Gazeta employees have been murdered for doing their jobs. The newspaper’s longtime editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work safeguarding freedom of expression in 2021.

As well as the main publication in Russian, Novaya Gazeta Europe has an international edition in English that translates and adapts reporting about Russia, Ukraine and Belarus for a global audience, as well as commissioning its own stories, opinion pieces and analysis.

Read more about the international edition in our mission statement.

For any feedback or enquiries please contact the international edition’s editorial team at english@novayagazeta.eu

We also welcome pitches for stories in English at pitches@novayagazeta.eu