The search at the Novaya Gazeta editorial office lasted 13 hours. Security forces confiscated equipment and documents, the publication’s employees were interrogated

The search at the Novaya Gazeta editorial office in Moscow ended around 1 a.m., the publication itself reported . The investigative actions lasted 13 hours. Two vans with security forces left the building and seized equipment and documents. Throughout this entire time, some of the newspaper’s employees were present in the editorial office, gathered for an editorial planning meeting. Lawyers were not allowed to see them.

According to The Insider, everyone who was in the editorial office was interrogated by security forces, and the publication's employees were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Their personal phones were returned to them after the search was completed.

Until the evening, the defender also could not get to the only person detained on Thursday, April 9, Novaya Gazeta columnist and co-founder of the Sobesednik publication Oleg Roldugin. The journalist was detained for 48 hours after a search in his apartment and interrogation at the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow under a criminal article on the illegal use and transfer of personal data for personal gain.

According to the ministry, the case was opened a month ago. According to the police, “private resources for storing personal data” were used in the preparation of materials with “negative content regarding Russian citizens.” The articles were allegedly published in unnamed Telegram channels.

The Insider talked about Oleg Roldugin's five main investigations, including the billion-dollar property of the Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev and the secret bunkers of Vladimir Putin.

Novaya Gazeta stopped publishing in print after the start of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. A few months later, the Basmanny Court of Moscow revoked the publication’s media license following a lawsuit from Roskomnadzor. The newspaper's website was blocked by decision of the same supervisory agency.