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Dear readers! At http://novayagazeta.livejournal.com/ the blog of the authors of Novaya Gazeta has been launched. Here, in their own name, they talk about how the newspaper is made, comment on current events and answer your questions. We...

Dear readers!

The Novaya Gazeta authors' blog has been launched at novayagazeta.livejournal.com. Here, in their own name, they talk about how the newspaper is made, comment on current events and answer your questions.

We promised you a "presence effect" - and for this, for example, under the heading "Plannerka" we began to upload audio recordings of editorial meetings. Of course, not all - only those that are devoted to the analysis of already released issues. Due to the new release schedule of the newspaper (Monday, Wednesday, Friday), the debriefing will take place on Wednesday, Thursday and Monday, respectively. Now you can regularly hear, for example, how the editor-in-chief admires the texts, quotes the classics, or gives the secretariat nuts. And to see how the caricatures of our artist Pyotr Sarukhanov are born.

An important branch of the blog will be the judicial one: editor-in-chief Sergei (Mikhalych) Sokolov expresses his opinion on the trial in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. He has already proposed holding closed briefings for journalists covering the trial, “not for PR support of their position, but so that neither prosecutors nor lawyers hold colleagues for suckers. Closed - for understanding the situation, and not for publications with abundant citations. After all, some things are already being clarified, new questions are emerging, to which it is desirable to seek answers together.”

We try to be serious and self-critical. But there will also be lyrical digressions: vivid photo reports, rumors and gossip, unimagined dialogues and newspaper typos.

And among other things, we will probably open the Soviet archives of the humorous magazine Krokodil and from time to time we will delight you with bearded humor of many years of endurance. In the near future, look at novayagazeta.livejournal.com: "NEW" AND CRISIS Retrenchment, closing tabs - increased circulation and one more issue per week. How We Experienced It

THE DUCK OF FOGGY ALBION Was a deal concluded on the purchase of the oldest English newspaper The Evening Standard by Novaya's shareholder Alexander Lebedev