Invitation to Europe
novayagazeta.eu
novayagazeta.eu
Meduza's crowd is pretty sour right now so it's quite possible they converge.
2) Meduza based in Riga, Latvia and Novaya Gazeta based in Moscow, Russia
3)I think, that Meduza has more opposite position to Russia’s government then Novaya Gazeta. Novaya Gazeta just want to be free in telling news in Russia. Novaya Gazeta had tried playing Russia’s government rules until they was blocked by Kremlin in 28 march 2022.
4) Meduza owned by Medusa Project SIA. Novaya Gazeta owned by journalists of Novaya Gazeta (76%), Alexander Lebedev (14%) and Mikhail Gorbachev (10%)
People need to get it crystal clear, the last of "independent" Russian media were only allowed to be because they were the most compliant, and collaborationist ones vs. ones which were confrontational, and making actual difference.
Best Russian journalists were killed, or exiled many years before.
The only meaningful further press coverage of Russian politics must be about regime change, and not empty hopes for "reform," and "dialog" with the system which showed itself not amendable to anything of that for 23 years.
You are mistaking journalism for propaganda if that's your opinion
(Which makes me wonder if they don't consider Russia to be European)
I think the "Our website will be launched in" banner counts as "relaunch", since they were active before.
Novaya Gazeta Europe is clearly based in Europe and specifically _not_ in Russia; this is the whole point of their endeavour.
More to the point, it must also have been established in the European Union, because it has a .eu domain name, and you need to be an entity in an EU state to create one of those.
I know a couple of my clients have basically abandoned domain names, but most British businesses were only holding onto .eu domains for completeness anyway.
Also, they are from Russia, had to leave Russia as the war started and Russia currently see Europe as Western and enemy. So, implication is that they will print things they could not print if they had been in Russia.
I think this is largely generational, for me even in my 50s as a Brit I also very much see myself as European. Maybe that's partly because I know and have worked with a lot of Americans, so I identify myself that way in contrast to them. Although us Anglophones also need to stick together against those Europeans.
Let's just say that this kind of thing is a rather sore point for a lot of people in the UK.
If only we could've gotten them to do that eight centuries ago...
I think that many Russians see themselves not part of Europe, culturally and politically. They are something different, especially pro-government ones. Europeans see themselves as part of Europe, even if they have grievance against something. And that is all there is to it.
I haven't taken a survey of this but that's my intuition.
Ps. I suspect this contrasting of Russia and Europe may be quite old. I think of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and Peter the Great. That kind of contrast was very much under discussion in that time period as far as I know.
In 2016 it initiated a moral panic about a phenomenon called "Blue Whale Challenge"[0] which obviously never existed (or started existing in ironic form after the initial article - there were just too many people unable to miss such an opportunity to get their lulz). While being absolutely unprofessional, the article appeared in a very convenient time - in the midst of an ongoing government campaign to increase control over social networks.