Documentary, 75 min, Russia, 2018
Director – Askold Kurov, Editor – Kirill Sakharnov, Music – Sorin Apostol
Novaya Gazeta. Founded in 1993. One of the first independent editions of post-Soviet Russia.
One of the last remaining today. The paper specializes in investigative reports. The most important of them are:
The Russian apartment bombings, The Beslan school siege, The Panama Papaers, Gay men hunt in Chechnya
and others…
Since 2000 five journalists and a lawyer of the Novaya Gazeta editorail board have been murdered.
Novaya Gazeta has won more than 60 prestigious world's awards, including the Pulitzer Prize,
the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
Three-time Nobel Prize nominee.
The film follows 18 months of one of the hardest period of the paper's life.
