Novaya Gazeta announced its closure on the morning of October 30. The day before, journalists said the editorial office was being evicted from its office in Potapovsky Lane in central Moscow, where the newspaper had worked for 29 years. In recent years the paper managed to keep operating from Russia despite searches, blockings, loss of registration and a show trial of investigator Oleg Roldugin. Editor-in-chief Sergei Sokolov, who had worked at Novaya Gazeta since its founding, gave an interview titled 'We have the experience of a phoenix'; the headline said authorities had still achieved the closure of his life's work.