20th anniversary of the "Novaya Gazeta"

April 1 "New Gazeta" celebrates the 20th anniversary. The celebration will take place in one of the Moscow cinemas. On this day, the premiere of the film by Alexei German Sr. will take place, “It is difficult to be a god”, shot from the Brothers Strugatsky brothers of the same name. "The show of the film on the 20th anniversary of Novaya Gazeta will practically coincide with the magpies of Alexei German. We will invite guests and will watch this movie with the German family," the newspaper editor -in -chief Dmitry Muratov said on the air of Echo of Moscow. He explained that even during the life of German Sr., the question was discussed, “whether the first show of the film“ It is difficult to be a god “for the birthday of a newspaper” was discussed.

In 1993, a team of journalists who left the Komsomol Truth created a "new daily newspaper." The first three months the newspaper came out once a week, then it became daily. Now the New Gazeta is released three times a week - on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

The control package of shares belongs to the staff of the publication, 39 percent - businessman Alexander Lebedev, 10 percent to the ex -president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev.