# Moscow Newspaper Novaya Gazeta to release Russian materials supplied by Wikileaks. **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 22, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moscow-newspaper-novaya-gazeta-to-release-russian-materials-supplied-by-wikileaks/565097 "2010-12-22T19:15:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moscow-newspaper-novaya-gazeta-to-release-russian-materials-supplied-by-wikileaks/565097/1 "2010-12-22T19:15:43Z")
[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-22/wikileaks-joins-forces-with-billionaire-lebedev-gorbachev.html](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-22/wikileaks-joins-forces-with-billionaire-lebedev-gorbachev.html) > [@](#): > > Novaya Gazeta, the Moscow newspaper controlled by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and billionaire Alexander Lebedev, said it agreed to join forces with WikiLeaks to expose corruption in Russia. > > Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, which publishes secret government and corporate documents online, has materials specifically about Russia that haven’t been published yet and Novaya Gazeta will help make them public, the newspaper said on its website today. > … > Novaya Gazeta received unlimited access to the WikiLeaks database, which has a “wide range” of materials, including documents about Politkovskaya’s murder as well as information about Russian politicians’ ties to organized crime, Nadezhda Prusenkova, a Novaya Gazeta spokeswoman, said by phone from Moscow. The newspaper will start releasing materials next month. Take note, those of you who said that Wikileaks was specifically targetting the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moscow-newspaper-novaya-gazeta-to-release-russian-materials-supplied-by-wikileaks/565097/2 "2010-12-22T19:22:41Z")
I am in awe of their courage, but fear this will not end well. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moscow-newspaper-novaya-gazeta-to-release-russian-materials-supplied-by-wikileaks/565097/3 "2010-12-22T19:27:38Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I am in awe of their courage, but fear this will not end well. This seems to me to be much more dangerous than doing this to the U.S. They need to be very careful. Especially the newspaper people, who are physically in Moscow. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moscow-newspaper-novaya-gazeta-to-release-russian-materials-supplied-by-wikileaks/565097/4 "2010-12-22T19:46:33Z")
Yeah, the idea is to make sure they don’t become _hammered_ brass. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moscow-newspaper-novaya-gazeta-to-release-russian-materials-supplied-by-wikileaks/565097/5 "2010-12-22T19:56:51Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Yeah, the idea is to make sure they don’t become _hammered_ brass. Maybe I’m being wooshed but I don’t know what you’re trying to say. ---
**Author:** ![godix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/278dde/32.png) [@godix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godix)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moscow-newspaper-novaya-gazeta-to-release-russian-materials-supplied-by-wikileaks/565097/6 "2010-12-22T20:35:13Z")
I predict that in the next month I will be reading an article about how a bunch of journalist were killed in the course of robberies, street crime, or other ‘random’ events… ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moscow-newspaper-novaya-gazeta-to-release-russian-materials-supplied-by-wikileaks/565097/7 "2010-12-22T20:38:31Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I am in awe of their courage, but fear this will not end well. Well Gorbachev is nearly 80; I suppose he’s lived long enough. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moscow-newspaper-novaya-gazeta-to-release-russian-materials-supplied-by-wikileaks/565097/8 "2010-12-22T20:40:32Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Maybe I’m being wooshed but I don’t know what you’re trying to say. He is saying that the newsmen doing this have gigantically big brass balls. And that they are probably going to end up being hammered brass, as they are going to get kicked (or more likely shot) in them.