Flowers for Anna – Russia’s offensive on media and the truth

Headline Title: Flowers for Anna – Russia’s offensive on media and the truth 07 October 2014 On a quiet side-street in a well-heeled Moscow neighbourhood two kilometres from the Kremlin, Novaya Gazeta has its headquarters in a drab pink and grey concrete office block. Fiercely independent since it was set up in 1993 with funds from Mikhail Gorbachev’s Nobel Peace Prize, today the newspaper is one of a dwindling number of free media voices in Russia. Both at home and abroad, it has for years been seen as critical source of solid investigative journalism on the issues…

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