Novaya Gazeta
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Novaya Gazeta is a Russian newspaper. A semi-weekly covering political and social issues, it is published in Moscow, Russian regions and some foreign countries. The general circulation is now near 550,000 copies. In addition, it has a colour monthly supplement with a 75,000-copy circulation.
Novaya Gazeta is known for being critical of Russian government policy. Its writers include Anna Politkovskaya.
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and State Duma Deputy Alexander Lebedev own 49% of the newspaper and the paper's staff controls the remaining 51% of shares.[Gorbachev Buys Into Kremlin’s Most Vocal Critic]
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