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Novaya Gazeta reports the incident on its website and describes what happened as a chemical attack targeting the newspaper. Images on the website show how the police and rescue service are working to investigate the site. Nobody was hurt.
The smell is reminiscent of one that came from an unidentified gas that one of the newspaper’s journalists had sprayed on his car and home in an attack in 2017, the newspaper writes in a statement on its website. That same year, the newspaper received a letter with white powder that later proved harmless.
In 2018, one of three cages with sheep thrown outside the editorial office. The sheep wore orange vests with the text “press”. A newspaper employee has also received a wreath with his name sent to the newsroom. The newspaper has also received an offer with a severed boar’s head in a basket along with a threatening letter addressed to the entire newsroom.
One of the newspaper’s most famous profiles, Anna Politkovskaya, a staunch critic of the war in Chechnya, was assassinated in 2006.
Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov does not say exactly who he believes is behind Monday’s alleged attack. But he notes that three NGOs earlier in the day took legal action against the Russian security firm Wagner following the revelations published in the newspaper, writes the Moscow Times. It is about pointing out the company’s mercenaries as responsible for having tortured and murdered a man in Syria who is believed to have deserted from the army.
