Voluntary donations to the editorial nonprofit ANO RID Novaya Gazeta fell from 231 million rubles in 2021 to 59.5 million rubles in 2025, according to Russian Federal Tax Service filings analyzed by The Bell journalist Pavel Belavin in a report published on October 30. The figures concern that nonprofit, not every company associated with the newspaper.
The Bell reported that the nonprofit had around 20,000 rubles left in its bank accounts at the end of 2025. During that year, unpaid salary obligations rose from 2.8 million to 12.9 million rubles despite cuts to the payroll budget. Its average annual workforce was 86.