I would greatly doubt much hopes for this "relaunch" if they will continue their conformist tune.<p>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.<p>Best Russian journalists were killed, or exiled many years before.<p>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.
Submission title nitpick: The word "Relaunch" doesn't appear on that site, and they're calling themselves "Novaya Gazeta Europe"...<p>(Which makes me wonder if they don't consider Russia to be European)
Novaya gazeta has its own achievements, but there are some questionable parts as well.<p>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.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_Challenge" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_Challenge</a>