How Novaya Gazeta journalists tried to buy a nuclear warhead in 1990s Russia
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Meduza [en] · Eastern Europe
In late October, Novaya Gazeta announced it was closing. On November 5, World Digital Preservation Day, RIMA and Kronika are making the complete Novaya Gazeta archive available, including previously unavailable issues. They are now all collected in one place, free to read and fully searchable. One of the most unforgettable stories the outlet ever ran, back when it was called Novaya Ezhednevnaya Gazeta (New Daily Gazette), was its investigation of Russia’s black market in nuclear arms. Co-author Kirill Belyaninov told Meduza how he, Dmitry Muratov, and columnist Vladimir Filin set out to buy th
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