Novaya Gazeta – Russia’s most prominent(著名的，突出的) independent newspaper – is being shut down. On 29 October, two things became known: Novaya was being evict(驱逐，赶出)ed from its newsroom, and banks would stop process(处理)ing readers’ donations to Novaya (its only legal income). Insiders spoke of the risk of Novaya being declared an extremist organisation – then any employee could be jail(监禁，入狱)ed: a journalist, an editor, an accountant, a cleaner. Closing was safer.
俄罗斯最著名的独立报纸《新报》正被关停。10月29日，两件事浮出水面：《新报》被逐出新闻编辑室，银行将停止处理读者给《新报》的捐款（这是它唯一的合法收入）。内部人士谈到，《新报》有被宣布为极端组织的风险——那样一来，任何员工都可能入狱：记者、编辑、会计、清洁工。关门反而更安全。
Novaya Gazeta is a second family to me and to many journalists now scattered(分散的，散落的) around the Earth. For me it is my first family, too – my adopted sister also worked at Novaya, and it’s funny how alike we turned out.
《新报》是我和许多如今散落世界各地的记者的第二个家。对我来说，它也是我的第一个家——我收养的妹妹也曾在《新报》工作，有趣的是，我们后来变得如此相像。
I bought Novaya for the first time when I was 14. I opened it to an article by Anna Politkovskaya(安娜·波利特科夫斯卡娅，俄罗斯著名调查记者) about the “cleansing(清洗，清除)” of the Chechen village of Mesker-Yurt by Russian soldiers. Thirty-six people were killed; one man was crucified. None of it made sense to me. I considered myself well informed(消息灵通的); like everyone around me, I knew exactly what was happening in Chechnya. Our soldiers were heroically(英勇地) protecting civilians from terrorists.
我14岁时第一次买《新报》。翻开报纸，读到安娜·波利特科夫斯卡娅的一篇文章，讲的是俄罗斯士兵对车臣村庄梅斯克尔-尤尔特进行“清洗”。36人被杀，一名男子被钉在十字架上。这一切对我来说毫无道理。我自认为消息灵通；和身边所有人一样，我清楚地知道车臣正在发生什么。我们的士兵正英勇地保护平民免受恐怖分子伤害。