A large modernist(现代主义的) building in the heart of Moscow, a former printing press, with a modest nameplate(铭牌): Novaya Gazeta. Journalists packing up books, belongings, memories. The rustle(窸窣声) of cardboard and screech(刺耳声) of packing tape. Boxes piled in the newsroom, under a street sign: “Politkovskaya Square(以遇害记者命名的广场)”, named after Anna Politkovskaya, a renowned reporter for the newspaper, killed 20 years ago this month.
莫斯科市中心一栋大型现代主义建筑，曾是印刷厂，挂着一块不起眼的铭牌：《新报》。记者们正在打包书籍、物品和回忆。纸箱的窸窣声和封箱胶带的刺耳声交织在一起。新闻编辑室里堆满了箱子，上方是一块街牌：“波利特科夫斯卡娅广场”，以该报著名记者安娜·波利特科夫斯卡娅命名，她于20年前的这个月遇害。
A young staff member sits down next to others taking a break, just to spend a little more time with colleagues. A trolley(手推车) rolls down the corridor, carrying photographic prints. “It’s as if my whole life has gone by(仿佛一生已逝),” says the newspaper’s accountant. A crestfallen(垂头丧气的) camerawoman records the final days of the last liberal media outlet(自由派媒体机构) in Russia.
一名年轻员工坐到正在休息的同事旁边，只为多和同事们待一会儿。一辆手推车沿着走廊滚过，上面装着照片打印件。“感觉我的一生都过去了，”该报的会计说。一位垂头丧气的女摄影师记录着俄罗斯最后一家自由派媒体的最后时光。
Dmitry Muratov (pictured), Novaya Gazeta’s publisher and a Nobel peace-prize laureate(诺贝尔和平奖得主), was on his way to Paris on October 19th to commemorate(纪念) Politkovskaya’s murder when he learned the paper was being evict(驱逐、赶出)ed from the building it had occupied for three decades. Its financial channels would be blocked, thanks to being branded a “foreign agent(外国代理人)”. Next day he learned that Sergei Sokolov, the editor-in-chief, had been detain(拘留)ed and questioned.
《新报》出版人、诺贝尔和平奖得主德米特里·穆拉托夫（见图）于10月19日前往巴黎纪念波利特科夫斯卡娅遇害途中，得知报社将被逐出已使用三十年的大楼。由于被贴上“外国代理人”标签，其资金渠道将被封锁。第二天他又得知主编谢尔盖·索科洛夫已被拘留并接受审讯。