In 1993, Novaya Gazeta reporters posing as a foreign buyer’s representatives were offered uranium pellets, plutonium plates, and a Soviet SS-20 nuclear warhead

In 1993, Novaya Gazeta reporters posing as a foreign buyer’s representatives were offered uranium pellets, plutonium plates, and a Soviet SS-20 nuclear warhead

In late October, Novaya Gazeta said it was closing after 33 years. It’s been Russia’s oldest independent publication, and it has documented every major event in the country’s modern history, from the shelling of the Russian parliament building in 1993 and the wars in Chechnya to the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny.